{"id":4979,"date":"2018-12-02T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/12\/02\/4979\/"},"modified":"2018-12-02T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T17:00:08","slug":"4979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/12\/02\/4979\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not only WhatsApp is proprietary software but it doesn’t even like to run on a pure Android release which I have to remind you is Free Software.<\/p>\n

Sadly its freedom is not persistent so it can be turned and it is too often turned into proprietary.<\/p>\n

Telegram happily runs on many terminals at the same time. You can move your SIM from a phone to another and it doesn’t have anything to quarry about. WhatsApp instead insists on having one and one only terminal to control. And it keep losing data unless you backup it on a proprietary service (aka Google Drive) and no, it doesn’t allow you to download it. Unless you “voluntary” choose to lock yourself into the golden and sweet prison of proprietary services.<\/p>\n

It took me years to acknowledge it: Google’s walled garden is the same as Apple’s: a golden and comfortable prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Escaping those prisons is not easy neither fast.<\/p>\n

I will escape. I will be free.<\/p>\n

Sticking to FairPhone Open is one of the required steps. It shows how pervasive, sweet yet subtle are the shackles of the great G which by the way has shunned its choice not to be evil some years ago.<\/p>\n

I’ve been mainly using Free as in freedom software since 1997. Now the time has come to really stick to freedom even in mobile.<\/p>\n

Until my Puri.sm Librem5<\/a> will come. Then things will get serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not only WhatsApp is proprietary software but it doesn’t even like to run on a pure Android release which I have to remind you is Free Software. Sadly its freedom is not persistent so it can be turned and it is too often turned into proprietary. Telegram happily runs on many terminals at the same…<\/p>\n

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