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Simple Mobile apps have been very popular among FOSS enthusiasts. I've personally been using the Gallery, Contacts and the Phone app since a few years now. It's a shame that it has come to this, will be on the lookout for their forks.

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[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Looks like one of the maintainers/contributors has already set up a fork.

https://github.com/FossifyX

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

His original comment of not wanting to fork to respect Tibor's decision to sell his users out doesn't make me confident in him.

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to think he was just trying to be respectful of the author, probably having worked quite a bit together. But he changed his mind pretty quickly when he saw the original author had totally checked out. Maybe that's a generous reading though.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

Maybe he wasn't even aware of this until everyone else was and got blindsided too. I'm still wary but I'll give him a shot.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

The linked statement is ridiculous. Fork the hell out of it before the repo gets removed!

[–] erAck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

It's been renamed to FossifyOrg.