People only ever respond to what they think other people have written; such is the nature of communication. If you mean respond to the multi-paragraph G+ post:

People only ever respond to what they think other people have written; such is the nature of communication. If you mean respond to the multi-paragraph G+ post: too many pieces to dedicate time to at this juncture. I misunderstood what you meant by the Debian model "in terms of app development" to refer to package creation / maintenance approach. If you mean these three elements: Putting user interests first Seeing specific limitations on app capabilities Promoting Free Software in all possible cases ... Then I think from Google's standpoint, it's probably understood that they are covering #1 already (item 1 in https://www.google.com/about/company/philosophy/ https://www.google.com/about/company/philosophy/), #2 ought to be covered by M's security model, and #3 is a bit of a non-starter for a commercially viable app store (though Android certainly doesn't preclude it, as evidenced by F-Droid and other alternate app stores).