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?

  • superkret@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    A keyboard with swipe typing, multilingual autocorrect and speech to text support that actually works.

    Other than that, my only proprietary apps are from commercial services I use and pay for (banking, Spotify, Carsharing and public transport). I’d love for them to become open source, but it’s probably not ever gonna happen, cause they rely on verifying my identity.

    • FuryMaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

        • Treeniks@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

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

          • JustMarkov@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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            2 months ago

            If the license doesn’t meet the OSD and does not protect four freedoms, then it is not open-source.

              • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
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                2 months ago

                FUTO changing the definition of open source to suit their business model is like that time US Congress decided that pizza was a vegetable because it has tomato sauce.

                FUTO’s EULA may superficially resemble a true free software license (and may be good enough for you, personally) but it fundamentally undermines core tenets of the free software movement in order to preserve their business interests. All pseudo-FOSS licenses (whether of the “ethical” or the “business” variety) do this, because they prioritize the interests of the rightsholder above those of the community and the user. If important free software projects like Linux and Firefox were released under this license the free software world as we know it would not be possible.

                As proprietary licenses go, it’s certainly far from the worst.