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Fuck Android Developer Verification Program

335 points · 139 comments · 0xcrypto

  1. ur-whale · · focus · HN ↗
    Did you thing it was still the 2000's or something?

    That you were still free to write code, put it out there and have people use it freely?

    A decade ago, I made a joke comment to a friend that you were soon going to need a carry permit to operate a compiler.

    Joke's not so funny in 2026.

    1. lenkite · · focus · HN ↗
      So, the guy that HN loves to mock and poke fun at - Richard Stallman - was utterly correct after all.
      1. jjav · · focus · HN ↗
        Yes, rms was always correct. Freedom must never take a backseat to convenience or this is how it ends.
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