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Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project
(www.theregister.com)
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I agree, but those options are also unlikely in the long term. I'm just being positive and hoping for a life without Google.
I was thinking, Linux only really worked because companies profit from it and therefore support it. If it were just for desktop users it would have never been more than a programmer hobby. I don't see phones benefiting more than the end user, and without a lot of profit on that I don't see that working. So I think the future is dark.
But I'll still invest on it and pretend I live in an ideal world and pretend it's possible. It's not zero percent chance I hope...
I'm using AOSP, which is kind of Google-derivative, but I've gotten off of everything else. Geopolitics seems like it will get in the way of overbearing US monopolies pretty soon here, too.