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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 JustMarkov@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] lemmy_eat_world@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don't get me wrong: BW is still a pretty good service, and the proprietary code is still readable by anyone, but the fact that they're moving a bunch of their previously open source licensed code to something that's source available is definitely unfortunate.

KeePass, on the other hand, has tons of actually open source clients, which definitely gives them an edge for people that don't mind syncing their own DB.