Firefox OS on the ZTE Open [LWN.net]

Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

Posted Sep 6, 2013 20:02 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Firefox OS on the ZTE Open by MKesper
Parent article: Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

I'm pretty sure there are more open-source application on Google Play then that. The only problem: there are few thousand applications besides million of proprietary ones thus ratio does not look all that good. But it's similar to MacOS, Windows or any other popular OS with vibrant ecosystem thus I'm not complaining.

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Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

Posted Sep 6, 2013 20:15 UTC (Fri) by MKesper (subscriber, #38539) [Link]

Well, it's a little bit different: In contrast to free software for desktops, many free software programs built for Google Play include the non-free admob lib or even other obscure libs making it a hassle to build them with Free Software only.
And within f-droid, the ratio is 1:0. :)

Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

Posted Sep 9, 2013 8:10 UTC (Mon) by korpenkraxar (guest, #75003) [Link]

Is it possible to search the Google Play store by licences somehow to locate FLOSS?

If not, then presumably, this is a "do no evil" goodwill gesture that Google would be quite likely implement if there was a public petition that received some traction.

Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

Posted Sep 9, 2013 9:13 UTC (Mon) by MKesper (subscriber, #38539) [Link]

Look what F-Droid thinks about it:
https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/maintaining-a-directory-...