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Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 121 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Once again the "Everything that's not FOSS will turn to shit at one point or another" theorem proves true.

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  • [–] 57 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    And if a FOSS project turns into shit a fork will come up.

    One perfect example was simple apps acquisition. New owners turned it a ad ridden mess, fossify apps fork came to the rescue.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    nextcloud! mariadb! libreoffice!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Mariadb got bought by a private equity strip miner company late 2024, so it will probably be mined for every enshittification possible before thrown on the garbage heap like every company private equity has acquired before it.

    (It always takes a few years of inefficient planning before private equity starts rolling out enshittification)

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah but foss has its own problems. Mainly financing. People are expected to work for free on most open source projects, and some do because they enjoy it. I do that myself too. Its fun.

    But foss doesnt create products that require a lot of funding to get off the ground.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    There is something to be said about continuous community effort. Projects tend to continue even with original developers absent, sometimes for a very long time.

    One of my favourite games is STALKER, and boy does it hold a story and history behind the community. The eurojank game that was modded into an AAA looking survival game that was even published to GOG (STALKER GAMMA). Such project could've probably costed millions for a studio. Coincidentally, watched this video today, which briefly tells the history too: https://youtu.be/5C80TWlTC1o

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