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Why does it have to be Android? It's another commercial closed-source OS and therefore the business interests controlling it will at some point conflict with a
by Nuzzerino 7y ago
Why does it have to be Android? It's another commercial closed-source OS and therefore the business interests controlling it will at some point conflict with a user's definition of freedom. There are FOSS alternatives easily found by searching.
- thekyle 7y ago> Why does it have to be Android? It's another commercial closed-source OS What do you mean? Android is FOSS not closed-source.
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- Drdrdrq 7y agoAndroid is closed source. AOSP is open source (and pretty useless).
- mda 7y agoSorry, but, that is bollocks. How is it useless?
- saagarjha 7y agoMost of the stuff that ships on the average Android device is closed-source and written by Google.
- Forbo 7y agoCool. The question still stands, how does that make AOSP useless? For the vast majority of applications, I can find reasonable FOSS equivalents in F-Droid.
- saagarjha 7y agoI wouldn't call it "useless", but it's certainly not what most people would consider Android at that point.
- Jyaif 7y agoPretty sure that just Chromium+ASOP represents more LOC than the closed source apps (gmail, yT, google maps, etc...).