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Nice. Can you also promote Foss apps while you are at it instead of pushing for more proprietary hacks in exchange of foreign proprietary hacks? Money will flow

Nice. Can you also promote Foss apps while you are at it instead of pushing for more proprietary hacks in exchange of foreign proprietary hacks? Money will flow on its own.

RegnisGnaw 6y ago
Why? Its in the government's interest to promote MII (Made In India) rather then some foreign FOSS app.
- antepodius 6y ago
  Is it? If everyone in a country used FOSS apps rather than paying (in money, data, or letting ads into their heads) for proprietary ones, wouldn't that country's people be better off? And nobody's saying there can't be indian-made FOSS. Unless you're talking about the government putting its own interests above the people's, which makes sense.
  - RegnisGnaw 6y ago
    If you look at the list of apps, pretty much all of them requires some kind of back-end. Even if its 100% FOSS, the back end will cost money. Therefore someone has to pay for it somehow and someone will profit. Its obvious to their best interest that the one that profit is an Indian company, with ties to the government.
    - 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
      You are reading me wrong. There is a scanner app and here is a solid foss alternative https://github.com/Ethereal-Developers-Inc/OpenScan https://github.com/Ethereal-Developers-Inc/OpenScan
whydoyoucare 6y ago
It isn't that simple - Governments require Support, Scale, Stability, and Usability. FOSS lacks in all four, unless someone picks up the Support tab, makes the app scale to several billion people, ensure upgrades don't break functionality, and makes the app actually usable all citizens. As a consequence, the app may be free in theory, but the Support and other contracts cost a lot of money. As it is often said Linux is free if your time has no value.
- 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
  Who said about not charging fees? There are hundreds of apps that are Foss on f droid but charge a fees for some features on play store. It works for them, why cant TNT be replicated ? A total win win. https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools

Nice. Can you also promote Foss apps while you are at it instead of pushing for more proprietary hacks in exchange of foreign proprietary hacks? Money will flow on its own.

RegnisGnaw 6y ago

Why? Its in the government's interest to promote MII (Made In India) rather then some foreign FOSS app.

antepodius 6y ago
Is it? If everyone in a country used FOSS apps rather than paying (in money, data, or letting ads into their heads) for proprietary ones, wouldn't that country's people be better off? And nobody's saying there can't be indian-made FOSS. Unless you're talking about the government putting its own interests above the people's, which makes sense.
- RegnisGnaw 6y ago
  If you look at the list of apps, pretty much all of them requires some kind of back-end. Even if its 100% FOSS, the back end will cost money. Therefore someone has to pay for it somehow and someone will profit. Its obvious to their best interest that the one that profit is an Indian company, with ties to the government.
  - 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
    You are reading me wrong. There is a scanner app and here is a solid foss alternative https://github.com/Ethereal-Developers-Inc/OpenScan https://github.com/Ethereal-Developers-Inc/OpenScan

whydoyoucare 6y ago

It isn't that simple - Governments require Support, Scale, Stability, and Usability. FOSS lacks in all four, unless someone picks up the Support tab, makes the app scale to several billion people, ensure upgrades don't break functionality, and makes the app actually usable all citizens. As a consequence, the app may be free in theory, but the Support and other contracts cost a lot of money. As it is often said Linux is free if your time has no value.

2Gkashmiri 6y ago
Who said about not charging fees? There are hundreds of apps that are Foss on f droid but charge a fees for some features on play store. It works for them, why cant TNT be replicated ? A total win win. https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools