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I think it's obvious that sometimes open is not best. Business at a certain point don't really care about customers if they aren't getting profit. They sell mil

by Radzell 15y ago

I think it's obvious that sometimes open is not best. Business at a certain point don't really care about customers if they aren't getting profit. They sell millions of phone if they were to let say charge $5-$10 to people in order to upgrade the OS this would solve the problem. Yes giving upgrades for free would be the right thing to do for a moral human being, but this is a company not a person. Companies have not moral compass and you can't guilt them into doing something.

nextparadigms 15y ago
That's why I think for businesses who want to go open source, the best model is the Chrome/Chromium model. Keep Chromium as open as you want, but keep Chrome - that is built on it - only for yourself, and only you can control and modify it. If only Android worked the same way... I believe all Chromebooks even get all the updates from Google, though it remains to be seen if that can be maintained with more than a few devices.