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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid (www.neowin.net)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 63 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Open source community keeps trusting Google and they keep using the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    What should anyone have done different? Not built for one of the largest platforms with the most users?

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Android is so big because the community let them embrace it. Since the beginning the community should have worked in a true open solution. Now it’s really late to try to make a Linux phone

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    It doesn’t need to be Linux though - AOSP is still open source. Companies like graphebe using it just needed to not depend on Google to provide them the hardware and software to keep their OS viable. It’s entirely on them.

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  • [–] -5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Linux would suck on a phone. Sorry it is barely usable on a laptop. We get worse battery life hardware less supported. Sure we put up with it but most people just want stuff to work.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Anyone that builds their entire company and/or product around being reliant on a multi-billion/trillion dollar company providing them with their source code for free so you can use it to get around using their services is only setting themselves up for disaster.

    If you rely on Google giving you their source code, you need to have a backup plan ready at all times for what to do when Google don’t give you their source code.

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