Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source capacity over the last decade.

Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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  • Bronstein_Tardigrade
    4·
    5 months ago

    At the moment, my hope is to be able to land a Harmony NextOS phone soon. I’d just as soon cough up data to the Chinese as 5-Eyes and Google.