cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10796117
Fossify Gallery (fork of Simple Gallery), Fossify File Manager (fork of Simple File Manager) and Fossify Calendar (fork of Simple Calendar) are now available for download on F-Droid.
(Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an Israeli adware company)
About Fossify: Fossify is all about community-backed, open-source, and ad-free mobile apps. A fork of the SimpleMobileTools, which is no longer maintained, and we’re here to continue the legacy, bringing simple and private tech to everyone.
I’m not sure why companies constantly try to buy up open source software. It’s already open source. If they want to develop on top of it, in most cases they already can. They’re not going to win any points with the open source community. The project will just be immediately forked and people will use the new FOSS version.
except the current user base, that doesn’t care about FOSS as you or I do, will continue using the original app which will net them a non-insignificant amount of ad revenue, which is their entire purpose for existing. Makes sense to me
I suppose it’s silly of me to assume that anyone using a FOSS app is automatically not an idiot lol
They (like myself) mostly downloaded SMT apps from the Play Store, and of course just update them without looking at it since then.
The store page doesn’t have anything suspicious looking about it even now (who’s going to notice the missing ‘s’ at the end of “Offered by Simple Mobile Tool”) and it still says it’s open source.
Because there is no way that adding adware in a FOSS version of any software has any chance of success.