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I just saw that Mozilla is retiring Mozilla Location Services which provided an open, crowdsourced alternative to proprietary location services from Google and other vendors. 😰
https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065
This is used by GNOME and thus Fedora, Ubuntu, Endless OS, etc. to help provide OS-level location services without requiring every app to implement its own. And apparently a patent troll is part of the reason Mozilla stopped investing in it. 🙃
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Retiring the Mozilla Location Service · Issue #2065 · mozilla/ichnaea
The accuracy of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) has steadily declined. With no plans to restart the stumbler program or increase investments to MLS we have made the decision to retire the service. I...GitHub
Wireless Displays & New System Panel Among GNOME's GSoC Plans - OMG! Linux
A new system panel and wireless display connectivity are among the projects GNOME hopes to see worked on as part of this year's Google Summer of CodeScott Bouvier (OMG! Linux)
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