| ▲ | fsflover 2 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Why is AOSP a wrong path? Because its existence relies on a good will of Google. See: Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android (9to5google.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028 and GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources (grapheneos.social) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208925 > Any large enough entity can fork. Only megacorps will likely be able to support a hard fork for such a large codebase. > Hundreds already did, successfully. Which of them are hard forks? China will not be a benevolent dictator of AOSP > Fairphone It's Android again. There are indeed non-Android alternatives, but not in Europe. I use Librem 5 btw. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | charcircuit an hour ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>Because its existence relies on a good will of Google AOSP is open source. Anyone can fork it. >Google will allow only apps from verified developers This is done by Play Services which is not included in AOSP even. >Only megacorps will likely be able to support a hard fork for such a large codebase. The same can be said about any operating system. The scope of an operating system is huge. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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