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There's a difference between unintentional bugs, which it seems a bit harsh to call "badware", and actual malware or very sloppily written, low-value commercial

• Fnoord 9y ago
  > There's a difference between unintentional bugs, which it seems a bit harsh to call "badware", and actual malware or very sloppily written, low-value commercial software that recklessly behaves almost like malware. There's not much difference between the latter and all these smartphones, smart TVs, and other IoT devices which receive software updates for 2 or 3 years after release if you're lucky. > Also, Android, as running on most commercially available phones, is not FOSS because it contains Google's proprietary extensions and probably hardware drivers/firmware as well. True, its a mix. I can recommend LineageOS + microG [1] [1] https://lineage.microg.org/ https://lineage.microg.org/