Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to F-Droid@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle's dev registration plan will end the F-Droid projectwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down10cross-posted to: foss@beehaw.orgfreesoftware@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1159arrow-down1external-linkGoogle's dev registration plan will end the F-Droid projectwww.theregister.comAlas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to F-Droid@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square17linkfedilinkcross-posted to: foss@beehaw.orgfreesoftware@lemmy.zip
minus-squaresmiletolerantlylinkfedilinkarrow-up15·edit-21 year agoYou will simply not be able to install anything, unless the FOSS dev is cool with providing their ID to Google, and agrees to its ToS, and Google likes the app and signs it. Which many devs (myself included) will definitely NOT be.
minus-squaremcSlibinas@mastodon.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year ago@smiletolerantly @NutWrench it’s scary. Really scary.
You will simply not be able to install anything, unless the FOSS dev is cool with providing their ID to Google, and agrees to its ToS, and Google likes the app and signs it.
Which many devs (myself included) will definitely NOT be.
@smiletolerantly @NutWrench it’s scary. Really scary.