[Replicant] [GNU-linux-libre] Criteria for Android applications

[W. Kosior]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 22:54:02 +0300
Jean Louis via Replicant <replicant at osuosl.org> wrote:

> I agree.
> 
> Though downloading videos is not "social" activity, but participating
> in chat on YouTube is centralized as it is centralized social network,
> one can do that only with Youtube account. 
> 
> I prefer NOT to have the software piece in free software distribution
> that serves only the vendor and vendor's lock-in and is not usable for
> nothing else.
> 
> Examples:
> ━━━━━━━━━
> 
> - Mastodon applications can access various networks, ALRIGHT,
>   everybody can host Mastodon instances;
> 
> - NewPipe is for downloading videos, ALRIGHT, there is no username or
> lock-in
> 
> - Email, ALRIGHT, everybody can host Mastodon instances;
> 
> - Telegram, NOT ALRIGHT, as I cannot have my own Telegram server, it
>   was designed to lock-in users; software is free but there is no
>   possibility to modify it to work with my own server.

I'm impressed, this is indeed a good criteria.

I am wondering about possible exceptions and corner cases, though. What
about software for uploading tax reports?

Wojtek

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