As reported in a reddit post and confirmed in a github discussion, Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to ZippoApps which is known for shady business practices.
It is not yet clear whether they will make the app suite closed source (which would infringe the rights of all contributors since they contributed under the GPLv3 license).
In response to that situation, one of the main contributors forked the project under the name FossifyX and will continue to work on it.
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This is open source at its best: the original developer somehow decided to sell out to the dark side and someone rescued the projects within a couple of days. Brillant!
And thank goodness for that too: I used SMT Calendar but Etar misses a couple of features I really need that would make it a good replacement, so I’ll be sure to install FossifyX Calendar as soon as F-Droid picks it up.
I’m a happy user of simple sms. I didn’t know it was a series of apps! Thank you!
Hopefully FDroid keeps an eye on this project and removes/replaces the “Simple” suite as necessary.
I think they will migrate everything to fossify. With the gallery this already happened, the SMT Gallery vanished from my phone and the fossify gallery appeared. I guess that’s a good way to go, since for now fossify is just the same thing with a different name.
At the very least I imagine they will flag it with the undesirable features tag once someone gives them a heads up 🤞
Makes sense why I never felt like recommending Simple Mobile Apps. Trust the gut feeling. And never put all your eggs in one basket.
that’s good, these tools have been abandoned and unusable on chromebooks ever since the switch to ARCVM.
Edit: I get the feeling that none of you know what ARCVM is.
