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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Fossify File Manager released on f-droid (f-droid.org)

submitted 10 months ago by LemmyNameMyself@lemmy.world to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's like, almost 100% identical to the Simple File Manager from Tibor Kaputa, why make a new one?

[–] slurp@programming.dev 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Simple File Manager (and the other associated apps) got bought by a company, so this is a fork by a long-time maintainer that keeps it FOSS

[–] max641@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Great !

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So are they going to repackage those apps and sell on the playstore? What's the purpose of buying open source apps? Or it's just to limit open source competition?

[–] slurp@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

I think it's all speculation so far, but I've heard the company is an analytics one, so it's likely to try to sell user data