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We Must Break The Chains (media.piefed.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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Apple and Google will gladly erase the works of developers to chase profits.

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[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If the big problem is licensing proprietary protocols, wht not just make pirate distros?

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fully anonymous open source development is viable. This could happen. If done well, it could be a very good OS due to being able to do things without license concerns. The problem is: using it wouldn't be legal. Disguise mode to seem like other OS?

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 1 points 3 weeks ago

Use KDE. It looks like KDE.