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What if I paid for all my free software? (www.cynicusrex.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let's change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

€0.00—Aurora Store. Breaks rule 4. €0.00—F-Droid. Breaks rule 4.

Rule 4: No association with or reference to crypto“currencies” because these are greed incentivizing pyramid schemes.

They... They are app stores. ~~Aurora is just a reskin of fdroid, they use the same repos~~ What's the association, the fact that they let you install apps related to it? Bruh.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Aurora isn't a reskinned F-Droid and neiter does it use the same repositories. It's a client for the Google Play Store, but one that doesn't require an account or Google Services. And that's not what F-Droid is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To clarify , there is an aurora client for f-droid. https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/auroradroid

The OP mentions aurora store by name so they are probably not talking about the f-droid wrapper. Also if f-droid breaks rule 4 AuroraDroid almost certainly does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's dead

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, my bad, I confused it with aurora droid. In any case, I still don't get why they break rule 4.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I’d expected that rule to eliminate apps like Brave (BAT), Signal (MobileCoin), Telegram (TON), etc..

Feels weird to rule out a tool because the team accepts donations via cryptocurrency when the tool itself (and presumably other tools by that same developer) has no links to crypto. Obviously this assumes that they accept donations via other means; if not then I can totally understand not wanting to use crypto to donate.

It’s funny to see someone say “I didn’t send them a donation through PayPal, a crypto exchange, because they accept donations via crypto and I’m morally opposed to crypto.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Rule 4: No association with or reference to crypto“currencies” because these are greed incentivizing pyramid schemes.

Aurora accepts cryptocurrencies as donations. And F-Droid also did but apparently its on hold.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I only just became aware of this. The essay has been corrected, and donated to F-Droid.