Free and Open Source Software

17901 readers

1 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Any FOSS alternatives for Google Messages that support RCS? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Was curious if there were FOSS solutions since I really would like to avoid using anything Google related

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's like... both iPhone and Android are vender-locked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No, Apple can begin supporting RCS and play nice with other phones (not just Android) using a modern, encrypted, and open messaging platform. But they choose to fall back to SMS intentionally in order to market their devices as superior.