With google following apple’s walled garden, and limiting third party app installations, can someone else big (nonprofit like GNU or Linux foundation) fork and maintain android? Reason for choosing someone big is for mass adoption and that google is slowly boiling the pot to see what enshittification it could get away with

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 hours ago

    As long as Google is doing a better job maintaining AOSP than a nonprofit would, what’s the point?

    If they ever stop doing so, then this might be an option.

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      4 hours ago

      yeah, people forget AOSP is actually foss and it’s pretty good by itself.

      google play services is where the proprietary crud is at.