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Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
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Re: Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
#12Are the recent releases safe?
no idea: I uninstalled them and installed from F-droid.
Re: Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
#13In today’s economy, if you don’t pay for your oss apps they might be sold to the highest bidder at some point.
Re: Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
#14In today’s economy, if you don’t pay for your oss apps they might be sold to the highest bidder at some point.
Or, as it turns out, even if you do.
Re: Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
#15This is very sad. It understand that everyone needs to put food on the table and probably Tibor got an offer he couldn't refuse, maybe combined with burnout working on these apps for so long. So I can understand that.
That being said, the lack of transparency is not acceptable. Apart from one little acknowledgement in the above GitHub issue, there's zero communication on his part. Given that people actually paid, donated or even contributed source to his projects, even if it was not much, he has an obligation to these users/contributors and be open about the future of these apps. Most importantly:
- Will the apps remain FOSS? If a license change is planned, what about people who contributed and don't agree with that change?
- Which releases will be affected: What about the "Pro" version people paid for? What about the versions on F-Droid?
Re: Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
#16This is very sad. It understand that everyone needs to put food on the table and probably Tibor got an offer he couldn't refuse, maybe combined with burnout working on these apps for so long. So I can understand that. That being said, the lack of transparency is not acceptable. Apart from one little acknowledgement in the above GitHub issue, there's zero communication on his part. Given that people actually paid, don…
The source will stay around, and a contributor decided to maintain a fork (https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...) but it would be appropriate for more people to clone the repositories and especially their issues
Re: Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
#17There is a similar project that is still active. Note that I don't use any of these apps. Just thought I'd share: https://you-apps.net/
Re: Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
#18Are these the last apps on the planet that does not have some sort of data mining in their pipeline?
Re: Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
#19Many moons ago, an acquaintance sold his app account ( with apps like battery saver apps etc ) to an Israeli company. As i recall, in that case, the acquisition was for data-harvesting purposes.
Re: Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
#20Is the f-droid account part of the sale too? Will f-droid users be compromised?