We ("you") have no power to keep android open. Unfortunately it is in the hands of a company that is building it for profit, in a way or the other.

It's been our choice to drink this glass of wishful thinking while giving that company a solid dominant position in the market.

We ("you") can only make choices that will overturn that trend.

Fully opensource hardware with fully opensource software? Maybe, but also this is wishful thinking.

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sigmoid10 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's also heavily influenced by businesses. Most employers will happily hand you an Apple or Android phone for work, but I don't think there is a single company out there that would dare to hand normal people an Ubuntu Touch based phone.

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phoronixrly 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We (people who live in a country/confederacy with working antitrust laws) have power to keep large companies from anticompetitive practices such as this one.

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colordrops 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If they close things up with no alternative, the free open source software will likely start to catch up. it will take a few years though. This could be a blessing in disguise.

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RussianCow 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is just no reasonable way that the open source community can compete with a $3.8T company. And before you say something along the lines of, "But they don't need to compete, they just need to be good enough", that still requires business to put their apps on some open source app store and make them compatible with the open source OS, and there is close to zero incentive for them to do so.

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mistercheph 4 hours ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

MSFT Market cap: 2.951T AAPL Market cap: 3.883T

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RussianCow 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You've made my point. How many people use Linux as their primary desktop or mobile OS? And that's arguably the world's largest open source project.

	▲	colordrops 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Enough. Linux has finally caught on. I literally never use windows or mac and life has been fine.

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encom 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Somehow, Stallman returned.