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I find it ironic (for lack of a better word) that Android is based on Linux, yet it's the single largest spyware vector in the world. There's maybe a story to b
by tannhaeuser 7y ago
I find it ironic (for lack of a better word) that Android is based on Linux, yet it's the single largest spyware vector in the world. There's maybe a story to be told here about how an altruistic motive or dont-care liberalism or whatever contributes to its own demise and the enslavement of large parts of the populace behind addictive spam devices and into cloud dystopies, tragedy of the commons and all. But at least a discussion about Linux licensing wrt proprietary drivers and boot loaders, as well as mandatory apps seems about time.
- Nasrudith 7y agoIt brings to mind paradox of tolerance, how knowledge includes the ability to abuse it and the morality of hammers and knives - it is fundamentally up to the user if they want to build a house, prepare a meal, remove a tumor, or murder and any attempt to limit it only sabotages the purpose. Blame would be misplaced - even the most zealous licensing wouldn't have made a bit of difference in the end. Linux itself was a free rederived fork of Unix. If Google had to rederive their own fork of Linux they could have easily done so with only a little more early expense and reputation damage. At the cost of another proprietary fork gaining influence and control over free software or even open source.
- rrix2 7y agoYeah, I doubt Fuschia, for example, will magically make mobile malware disappear