Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

[Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>]

To download anything from the Google app store requires a nonfree
program, Google Play.  This program is known to have a back door (see
http://gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html) that is
universal or pretty close.

I suspect that uploading to the app store also requires nonfree software,
but I don't know for certain.

Thus, I think the GNOME Foundation should not do this.  When we
recommend free software for Android, let's instead recommend
fdroid.org as the place to get them.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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