Google Says Developer Verification Makes Android Safer. Critics Say It Just Makes Android More Closed https://itsfoss.com/news/android-developer-verification/ “Under the new rules, F-Droid has no workable path forward. Compelling volunteer contributors to register their identities with Google runs against what the platform stands for. “But claiming those app identifiers on developers’ behalf is equally impossible, since that would give F-Droid a kind of exclusive ownership over apps it has no right to own. “F-Droid has been clear that if Google goes through this, it effectively ends the project as it currently exists.” #foss #android #opensource