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Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I went with FUTO Keyboard. It's the only keyboard that ticks all my boxes to replace GBoard so far.

I wish the swiping predictions were a bit better though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (7 children)

FUTO keyboard is proprietary.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

It is not. FUTO calls it "source first" which just means "open source but with rules against bad actors". Certainly far from proprietary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It is not open source, because it does not meet the definition of open source.

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