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Personally I am increasingly concerned by deceptive SW, free or not. Take the enrollment tunnel of a brand new Android phone, or Google Play as a whole. Decept
by jerome-jh 6y ago
Personally I am increasingly concerned by deceptive SW, free or not.
Take the enrollment tunnel of a brand new Android phone, or Google Play as a whole. Deceptive wording everywhere, trying to make optional steps pass for mandatory. You could say it is just as bad as many ecommerce site (eg Amazon with Prime).
I know Google Play and key applications of the Android ecosystem are not open source, still it is based on a pretty large free codebase (on which my employer, hence me, make a living by BTW). But that makes one of the largest open-source contributor, Google, act quite devilishly. And other large contributors (I am thinking of Redhat) act devilishly too.
In short, there were days when being an open-source contributor meant being ethical. These days are definitively over.