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Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 107 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Onec again the "Everything that's not FOSS will turn to shit at one point or another" theorem proves true.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 27 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but foss has its own problems. Mainly financing. People are expected to work for free on most open source projects, and some do because they enjoy it. I do that myself too. Its fun.

But foss doesnt create products that require a lot of funding to get off the ground.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 8 points 13 hours ago

There is something to be said about continuous community effort. Projects tend to continue even with original developers absent, sometimes for a very long time.

One of my favourite games is STALKER, and boy does it hold a story and history behind the community. The eurojank game that was modded into an AAA looking survival game that was even published to GOG (STALKER GAMMA). Such project could've probably costed millions for a studio. Coincidentally, watched this video today, which briefly tells the history too: https://youtu.be/5C80TWlTC1o

[–] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 44 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

And if a FOSS project turns into shit a fork will come up.

One perfect example was simple apps acquisition. New owners turned it a ad ridden mess, fossify apps fork came to the rescue.

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

nextcloud! mariadb! libreoffice!

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago

Fuck MariaDB, all my homies use Postgres.