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by Abishek_Muthian 177 days ago
I don't understand why governments haven't started to fund F-Droid, almost all govt. apps are open-source.

Countries which fear they could be cut off from the duopoly mobile ecosystem should be forcing android manufacturers to bundle in F-Droid; For the amount of nonsense regulations they force phone manufacturers to adhere to, bundling F-Droid wouldn't be that hard.

Google won't be happy, but anti-trust regulations would take care of it.
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edent 177 days ago
What did your local politician say when you wrote to them and suggested it?

(I've worked with several politicians. You'd be surprised what a well timed letter or meeting can achieve.)

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idoubtit 177 days ago
Not much...

I wrote a few times to my local MPs ("député", as we call them in France). I usually got a response, though I suspect it was written by their secretary with no other consequence. In one case (related to privacy against surveillance), they raised a question in the congress, which had just a symbolic impact.

It may be different in other countries. In France, Parliament is de-facto a marginal power against a strong executive power. Even the legal terms are symptomatic of this situation: the government submits a "project of law" while MPs submit a "proposal of law" (which, for members of the governing party, is almost always written by the government then endorsed by some loyal MP).

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worldsavior 177 days ago
Because it's not their responsibility. Why they should care about these kind of stuff? Don't drop everything on governments.

A project like F-Droid is dumb to begin with where they're the one to build the apps.

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MYEUHD 177 days ago
> A project like F-Droid is dumb to begin with where they're the one to build the apps.

I heartily disagree. Linux distributions also build the packages themselves, and that adds a layer of trust.

It ensures that everything in the fdroid repo is free software, and can be self-built.

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worldsavior 177 days ago
They don't. The community builds the packages.

There are other ways to ensure something is free software and can be self built. Their approach is highly inefficient.

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