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How do these go with OS support? Not much in the way of reviews on Youtube but I've seen a few where the driver support leaves a bit to be desired.

They have something similar in Aus called the Capital Gains Tax and it is something that is inherrently political, unfortunately you can't uncouple the government from as they provide the public service that maintain and collect taxes. Honestly the public service should be answerable to parliament, not government.

Not to mention CGT been tweaked to ineffectiveness by previous governments by excluding assets from its calculations, notably housing, which has skewed CGT away from its original purpose and it's now more of a stick to whack at industries that aren't cozy with the current government.

FirefoxOS was also exclusively targeting the touchscreen market, which by that point was already totally saturated. Their partner deals weren't the best either, and they really launched their product before it was ready which sullied their image quite a bit.

KaiOS had the benefit of hindsight to see where Mozilla fell over, put in mitigations, and then shift focus to non-touchscreen devices to lower costs even further.

A lot of their stack is still open source under the MPLv2, however there are rumours that Google is 'encouraging' KaiOS to shift their rendering engine over to Blink. Whether this happens or not remains to be seen.

Actually, there's not been much change from the original fork of FirefoxOS besides the UI changes to be better for non-touch devices.

GerdaOS (LineageOS for KaiOS) allows people to import and run FirefoxOS packages without modification, though many apps will need some changes to allow it to work without a touchscreen.

The unofficial rumour mill says that with the extra investment from Google, KaiOS will probably shift to Chrome(ium) at some point in the future, but that's just a rumour and remains to be seen.

Just had a look over Harvey OS, looks like a pretty neat direction to take Plan 9.

But it got me wondering, is there any shared collaberation between any of the next-gen 'Plan 9-like' OS's like 9atom, 9front and Harvey OS?

Also, it looks as though Harvey OS is only using Slack for its discussion forum, which is a bit odd for an open source project.

So, this is essentially a continuation of the Natami project, but you still need original hardware?

Mastodon is a decentralised Twitter, Hubzilla would be the decentralised Facebook.

Has the code always been licensed CC-BY-NC-SA or is that a recent change?

Under Australian law public domain exists but only after the full copyright term expires. There's no legal mechanism for an author to relinquish their copyright over their works and dedicate it directly to the public domain.

I just want a solution that I know is FOSS, secure and won't use my data for analytics. I have no way of knowing that from a proprietary application so it doesn't fit my use case.

But that's not the case most of the time. Many apps aren't just one man operations, they pull in contributions from other authors and if it is GPL in any way, it becomes a mess to change that after the fact.

> and to respect my privacy, and I'll happily pay good money for that

That's the issue for me. If it's proprietary, I simply don't trust it to keep my data secure. I have no way of knowing that myself.

And that's the great thing about gpodder too, you can host your own instance of it so you are in total control of your services.

Antennapod and gpodder will work for the web and Android, I don't own an iOS device so I don't know of any solutions for that platform unfortunately.

To add to that, there are issues between the GPL and the Apple App Store ToS so open source apps on that platform are at a disadvantage as a result.