I don't understand why governments haven't started to fund F-Droid, almost all govt. apps are open-source.

Countries which fear they could be cut off from the duopoly mobile ecosystem should be forcing android manufacturers to bundle in F-Droid; For the amount of nonsense regulations they force phone manufacturers to adhere to, bundling F-Droid wouldn't be that hard.

Google won't be happy, but anti-trust regulations would take care of it.

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edent 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What did your local politician say when you wrote to them and suggested it?

(I've worked with several politicians. You'd be surprised what a well timed letter or meeting can achieve.)

	▲	idoubtit 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not much... I wrote a few times to my local MPs ("député", as we call them in France). I usually got a response, though I suspect it was written by their secretary with no other consequence. In one case (related to privacy against surveillance), they raised a question in the congress, which had just a symbolic impact. It may be different in other countries. In France, Parliament is de-facto a marginal power against a strong executive power. Even the legal terms are symptomatic of this situation: the government submits a "project of law" while MPs submit a "proposal of law" (which, for members of the governing party, is almost always written by the government then endorsed by some loyal MP).

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worldsavior 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because it's not their responsibility. Why they should care about these kind of stuff? Don't drop everything on governments.

A project like F-Droid is dumb to begin with where they're the one to build the apps.

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MYEUHD an hour ago | parent [-]

> A project like F-Droid is dumb to begin with where they're the one to build the apps.

I heartily disagree. Linux distributions also build the packages themselves, and that adds a layer of trust.

It ensures that everything in the fdroid repo is free software, and can be self-built.

	▲	worldsavior an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They don't. The community builds the packages. There are other ways to ensure something is free software and can be self built. Their approach is highly inefficient.