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They don’t mean it’s Android with no relation to Google; they mean that it’s Android with the Google parts removed.
by colejohnson66 6y ago
They don’t mean it’s Android with no relation to Google; they mean that it’s Android with the Google parts removed.
- dylan604 6y agoI guess I'm asking what part of Android is not Google? I get trying to detach apps like GMail, Maps, PlayStore, etc. But if Google created Android, why is it assumed to be okay of doing Googly things?
- em-bee 6y agothe concern is not code written by google, but code that depends on googles infrastructure, requires a google account, phones home, gives google control over my phone, is not released under a FOSS license (so i can't change it), anything that violates the users privacy... so what /e/ is doing is essentially an audit of android, and an attempt to remove everything that is of concern. it's a major project, and it's not complete. work in progress.
- gowld 6y agoAndroid core (AOSP) is Apache-licensed free open source.