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What an undeserving fate. A beloved app now being passed from vulture to vulture who rip off every possible morsel they can. When Branch bought Nova, I moved on to use Lawnchair [1], which is open source. Although it has been in beta like forever, with occasional glitches, it works well enough and has enough features to satisfy my customization cravings. [1]: https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair
> Nova is not shutting down. Our immediate focus is simple: [...]
So it will be shutting down or gutted into a privacy nightmare. That's all I needed to see.
Will Nova become open source?
We know this matters to many of you. It is something we are actively evaluating. Open sourcing a product responsibly involves licensing, security, build tooling, contribution workflow, and trademark stewardship. We do not have a decision to share yet, but we will be transparent once we do.
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giving anything to the user in return for a good review should be grounds for disqualification from app stores. (and it should be legally required for app stores to enforce it)
Since they claim to be a Swedish company, it might be worth filing a report with the Swedish consumer agency[0]. I am not a lawyer, and especially not a Swedish lawyer, so I can't say how illegal this is in Sweden or what if anything will happen. [0] https://www.konsumentverket.se/en/articles/report-to-the-swe...
That country loves their evil software.
Haven't heard of Nova in a very long time, this was one of the original customizable launchers for Android wasn't it? If it's gone this long without being open-sourced, it might be time to let go. Been using https://kisslauncher.com/ for many years and have no complaints.
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Niagara is amazing. It's quite different from other launchers, so either it works for you or doesn't. It perfectly matches what I was doing before, which was searching for apps by name to launch them.
Doesn't KISS do this? I'm curious why Niagara when KISS is probably lighter/smaller.
When a company says that they're here to stay after an acquisition that usually means the opposite.
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It’s becoming evident that open-source is the only thing that can cure Enshittification. Every proprietary application will become enshittified, it’s just a matter of when.
Many open source projects fail to find sustainable funding. If a cure is not financially viable it is not much different than the cure not existing.