Post #2637979

2026-04-17 23:07 UTC

@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social Yes I thought so.. thanks for the info. Well, I wonder how many on stock Android go through the pains of donating to developers? I'd think most of them are "download and see if it works" and that's it. Then it will stop working, and they will use corpo spyware shit instead. It will be interesting to see what this move by Google does to donations to good open source projects. I'd guess Google is betting on that people will just give up on open source. I think people will double down on it, and donate more, because it because even more obvious that it's the only option to keep OSS alive. Maybe I'm naive. @IzzyOnDroid@floss.social

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@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social 2026-04-18 00:06

@andymouse@todon.eu you're more optimistic than I am there (especially seeing how few donations arrive at our OpenCollective/Liberapay; we basically get much less than 1 Euro per hour work invested, and I bet most other projects are in a similar situation; though we do not do this for money, it helps us keep going, and we have bills to pay) – but I wish you are correct! 🤞 @theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social

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@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social 2026-04-18 00:19

@andymouse@todon.eu I don't think that is totally naive, but I do think the problem is more than donations and users. Keeping FOSS going inside these locked down ecosystems is going to be hard. If the dev tools get locked down, good luck; android is getting increasingly hard to dev without an IDE. We may need alternatives to these platforms, long term. I don't see FOSS surviving on stock android at this rate; given the Apache license, google could move all development into closed code. @IzzyOnDroid@floss.social

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