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		jstanley on Dec 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron aga... If your application is an intrinsic part of pretty much every GNU/Linux system, then yeah, pretty much. It's not GNU/Linux that's not free, but it makes it hard to use a GNU/Linux system that is free.

jjeaff on Dec 9, 2018 [–]

Play store is not a requirement. You can use f-droid or something similar and it has most everything you might need.

jstanley on Dec 9, 2018 | [–]

I know, and I do. In fact I don't have play services installed at all.

Unfortunately most people consider the play store to be a necessity, so its non-free nature is a problem.

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