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Fairphone (fairphone@social.weho.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2018 03:48:20 EST Fairphone

Thanks to the #FDroid community, Fairphone is now the first phone manufacturer that offers a phone and an operating system that supports auto-updating of your open-source apps.
Read the blog here: https://frphn.co/fdroidmstdn
https://social.weho.st/media/ACoPqrxUzKMY2FICPco

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1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2018 04:16:58 EST clacke
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  @fairphone That sentence needs some tweaking with qualifiers to make it entirely true, but the news is great news!
  
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  1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2018 04:35:18 EST clacke
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    Does anyone feel the pull of #xkcd386 strong enough to go in and correct kuleszdl on the true difference between OSS and FS?
    
    paulakreuzer on https://forum.fairphone.com/t/free-software-or-open-source-or/28173?u=paulakreuzer got it right.
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      Free Software or Open Source? (or...)
      
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      I just stumbled over a nice little article advocating the use of the term Free Software This seems to be one of the longer ongoing debates in the niches of the internet I like to hang out (the other one being vi vs Emacs) and I somehow still fail to have a comprehensive opion on the matter myself. So, I was wondering how the votes and discussion would be held here in the Fairphone community. Maybe some of you bright people can help me to better understand what these terms stand for. Free ...

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