Free Software on Android

[Dotan Cohen]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 13:18, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> Hi, I recently bought an Android machine (a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0),
> and am quite enjoying it. Superficially, it isn't very similar to what
> we've come to expect from Linux machines, but in my opinion the Linuxness
> still shows through in many ways that are hard for me to enumerate.
>
> Anyway, something which surprised me a bit is that although Android
> itself is free software, there seems to be very few free software
> apps, and even fewer high-quality free software which I'll be proud to use.
> The biggest (and only?) repository of free-software ("open source") apps
> I could find was f-droid, with around 150 apps.
>
> I was wondering - am I missing something? Is there a thriving community
> of Android free software writers that I somehow missed, and someone can
> point me to it?
>
> It got me thinking why when Linux started, free (open source) software
> thrived on it while commercial software was hardly available for it.
> Why is it the other way around with Android?
>

Instead of looking for free apps, decide which what you need the phone
to do then look for [free] apps that do that. For me, the only
incentive to change to an Android device would be to run Anki:
http://ankisrs.net/
http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/wiki/Index

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