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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Google's new developer mandate is hitting alternative app stores hard. F-Droid says forced registration, fees, and ID checks could end the open-source project.

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Google start with open source so they can use open source tools and get a lot of work for free.

But they use the famous Elbrace, E tende and Extinguish. See the things they are doing with the web with Chrome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

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