Ironically, I think regulation is what keeps them in power. They are major companies that comply with government regulations. Why would the government regulate to allow people to have devices that forgo government regulations?

If you want a successful mainstream operating system. It needs to work within the rules of society. It needs to comply with regulations. It needs to cooperate with mobile device manufacturers and network operators.

These small grassroots operating systems fail because, to do all those things, you need to be pragmatic.

The next major operating system will be backed by a business or government.

> If you want a successful mainstream operating system. It needs to work within the rules of society. It needs to comply with regulations. It needs to cooperate with mobile device manufacturers and network operators.

Which can be done with a small team by building on top of AOSP, like GrapheneOS does. How is that not pragmatic?