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   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-04-09 03:19, Marion wrote:   
   > On 8 Apr 2025 22:55:30 GMT, vallor wrote :   
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   >   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software   
   >   
   > Since you and Carlos are the ones who know more than I do about this...   
   >    "LocalSend is fundamentally free and open-source software (FOSS).   
   >     This means its source code is publicly available, allowing anyone   
   >     to inspect, modify, and distribute it. This core principle   
   >     remains regardless of how it's distributed."   
   >   
   > I aim for software that is akin to free beer, where I don't generally   
   > modify that beer and then redistribute it, but, Apple seems to be doing   
   > that in a way that is sanctioned by the provider of that free beer.   
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   >   
   > That is, if we go to the web page for LocalSend, it has a privacy policy.   
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   >   
   > Then, that LocalSend site has a link to an iOS section.   
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   >   
   > Which then takes us to the suggested iOS IPA on the Apple App Store.   
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   >   
   > When you download that IPA, you can only do so with a valid Apple ID.   
   >   
   > And then Apple unilaterally inserts not only a lock to that Apple ID,   
   > but Apple also invasively tracks your every use of that software,   
   > outside of the original privacy policy of the LocalSend web page.   
   >   
   > Given those facts, now what would you call this software knowing that?   
      
   I don't know. I don't know the Apple ecosystem.   
      
   This may be akin to using software with key certificates. The   
   verification of the certificate is open, but once there whatever the key   
   opens is there.   
      
   Like sending an email encrypted or signed by PGP. The software itself is   
   open, but it can not falsely claim encryption. Some programmer could   
   take, say Thunderbird, and create a fork that falsely claims to encrypt   
   but the mail is also using a key that the NSA can open.   
      
   This does exist, I worked for a company which allowed PGP in their   
   corporate email, but using a doctored version that added a key owned by   
   the company, so that they could read any email.   
      
   Is that Free Software? Well, their PGP version was published, license   
   unchanged, AFAIK.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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