On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 13:18, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]> 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 -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
