Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
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Re: Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
#2After Simple Mobile Tools have been lost to an adware company [1], the FossifyOrg forked and modified apps started slowly coming via Fdroid.
Re: Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
#3Between “fork” and “floss” (typo?) in the title I read this as being about something else entirely when scanning headlines.
Re: Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
#4Between “fork” and “floss” (typo?) in the title I read this as being about something else entirely when scanning headlines.
FLOSS = Free / Libre Open Source Software. It's meant to be a more specific version of FOSS, making the point that it's using a properly "libre" license, and not just free of charge and source-available.
Re: Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
#5I am happy about this fork. Simple Mobile Tools were some of the better non spying free android apps.
Re: Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
#6I didn't know SMT had been lost to an adware company… That's really sad. I'm a big time user of most of the apps in this project! Many of them are very good Android apps even compared to paid alternatives.
I'm especially pissed by this move because I used this project quite a lot in the free software development course that I teach. Many students want to gain experience in mobile development, and helping them make their first open source contribution to this project was a great way for them to learn mobile development and at the same time learn to contribute to an open source project (which requires many skills that are not all related to programming, hence having a specific course). I think we collectively made a dozen of PR last year for reported bugs or requested features in SMT apps.
Now it's like I made my students work for free for a shit company and to be honest I feel disgusted by that.
I'm really glad this fork is a thing, I hope it will work, and I hope the maintainers will be able to continue to publish seamlessly on F-Droid so that the switch is automatic, but I'm not sure that's even possible.
Re: Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
#7I see that fossify gallery is already on fdroid. Thanks!
Re: Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
#8I have been using eOS for years without any of the Simple Mobile apps. I have checked them out on occasion and I wouldn't call them "bad" but I have always been able to find more capable open source apps that fit my needs better.
Just one example, I've used Material Files for years and it has quite a few features not found in Simple File Manager.
Re: Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
#9I see that fossify gallery is already on fdroid. Thanks!
Yes! The Phone app seems to have been released today. I am just an ordinary user, no affiliation with the project. I used pretty much all the SMT apps, so now I am slowly migrating to these new alternatives as they come out. I just hope that the project is based on better foundation and on a community, rather than an individual.
Re: Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
#10I didn't know SMT had been lost to an adware company… That's really sad. I'm a big time user of most of the apps in this project! Many of them are very good Android apps even compared to paid alternatives. I'm especially pissed by this move because I used this project quite a lot in the free software development course that I teach. Many students want to gain experience in mobile development, and helping them make th…
Automatic switch is not possible due to different signatures, which is in fact a good thing. If the Fossify project keeps it running, contribution of your students is not lost at all.