Matt Giuca <[email protected]> writes:

> After living in free software world for so long, it does feel very ...
> I don't know ... "icky" being in the Android Market where all the free
> apps are either displaying ads, trying to sell you in-app purchases,
> or trying to upsell you to buy the full version. Oh, and asking for
> access to your location and contact list.

Easy response: since they're free, get the source code and disable any
anti-features like that. Then use your freedom to redistribute them to
anyone else, so they benefit from your improvements.

Unless you mean apps that are *not* free, and are merely zero-cost
proprietary software?

-- 
 \         “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have |
  `\                        some hope of making progress.” —Niels Bohr |
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Ben Finney

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