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You're basically saying that f-droid is better because it's small. Nothing to do with its selling point of being FOSS. (And for the record I'm an f-droid user)
by orblivion 9y ago
You're basically saying that f-droid is better because it's small. Nothing to do with its selling point of being FOSS.
(And for the record I'm an f-droid user)
- Sylos 9y ago1) What does it matter? If it's better by being small, it's still better. 2) The F-Droid maintainers manually build the apps on F-Droid from the respective code repositories. They will notice when something like that is off. This has to do with it being FOSS. And if you're wanting to tell me that this doesn't scale, not really, no, but it's the same thing that Linux distros have been doing for a long time and Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical actually do have a crapton of users, especially on the server side.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoManual code inspection and FOSS or closed is entirely orthogonal to typo squatting of package names. Every one of those distros gets around volume of desired apps by allowing the inclusion of third-party repos (e.g. current Python or docker) which in turn introduces typo squatting as a vector. You're asking for app store maintainers to slow everything to a crawl and never get popular. No entity which wants to be successful will do that, corporate or otherwise.