Joël de Bruijn

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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Reading your post earlier and got me thinking: are there more then one community type? As in …

    There are FOSS communities which members find each other for FOSS sake.

    But a more divers sort of community often gathers around the application.

    For example, the OSMand community consists of cartography enthousiasts AND developers and everyone in between.

    Although I like your app (intention and application, no scope creap etc) it doesnt unite users around a common goal. Which doesnt matter much because its still usefull.

    Another example would be: Recently a website to convert student tests scores to grades started to ask money. If a FOSS app would provide this the community would consist also of teachers and test grading people.








  • F-Droid changed the label to Non-Free Network Services because just linking from a POI to a booking site alone (without affiliate linking etc) isn’t the privacy nightmare fdroid wants it to be.

    I could use OM my whole life without clicking links from POI and never is anything exchanged with Kayak or OM.

    If one does a booking at Kayak then sure Kayak takes all kind of PII. OM wouldnt know btw.

    Non free network label is assigned because OM app is dependent on OM providing mapdata. And one cant change that. Its like OSMand can provide for OM or vice versa.