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Android will lose its corporate sponsor but it being an open source project will continue as long as people continue to develop it.
by robotbikes 7y ago
Android will lose its corporate sponsor but it being an open source project will continue as long as people continue to develop it.
- josteink 7y agoBut it’s mostly shipped on corporately made, marketed and sold phones. Without shipments, it’s just yet another obsolete mobile OS.
- robotbikes 7y agoWell I'm not aware of any nonprofit phone development cooperatives so without Google driving it is is likely to become less popular but there will probably also be other corporations that continue to develop an ecosystem for it. There are still OS/2 derivatives being developed. I'm also just saying people will continue to use it and something along the lines of LineageOS will be even more important for people to be able to use their existing phones. For most people who continuously discard their phones after a few years to get the latest greatest it may end up being supplanted by whatever fuschia based phones are developed. I'm convinced that fuschia is partially driven by a desire to escape the GPL so with a MIT based licensed manufacturers won't even need to pretend to release the source code for their hackish drivers and kernel mods.