Google and Apple were once the 10 employee nobodies going against behemoths.

Google also used to have no lock in, as well. It's original selling point was an open ecosystem with no lock in, unlike Apple.

You're like a walking definition of 'those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it'

Google was just a comparison. Of course Murena will not become as strong globally, but if we look at it relatively to the Costum ROM community, they have quite a fair share already.

Don't take everything literally. I just said, that having the track record that /e/ has regarding actual Privacy and not relying on big tech, which dosent take much effort since they literally fork LinaegeOS, which already dosent rely on big tech, I don't think its a good idea to let them become any stronger than they need to be, since, like I just pointed out

Murena does not do any substancial Development of Costum Roms. They just take Linaege, remove all the Open source software like Seedvault, and instead implement their own security nightmares.

And no, tracker blocking is not a good reason to make your own Costum Rom. There are literal free apps on Fdroid which do it already, and better. Don't like it? Switch to the DNS server of adguard, they do that too. Or mullvad. Or whatever.

Murena as a company is literally a leech just like Iode, which Attach themselves to Linaege (which dosent say they are Private at all), add a fucking DNS blocker, call it a day, and act like they just made Linaege Private.