I am in awe at the amount of capital Google's market dominance affords them and the consistency with which they squander that capital.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

This is not the way.

I'm pretty sure there is a lot of code in Android that belongs to Google and is not part of an upstream GPL project. They would be completely entitled to stop sharing it.

Not quite, they could make you request it by post and send it on a stack of floppies.

You can compare against old dumps.

>The Android kernel source code is in git: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/

That's the mainline kernel. Actual devices use various LTS kernels, for instance the pixel 9a uses kernel 6.1[1], which was hasn't been updated in a year[2]

[1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/tegu/

[2] https://android.googlesource.com/device/google/tegu-kernels/...

The repositories you have linked are not sufficient to build an Android distribution. In order to get the missing bits, you have to fill out a form: https://source.android.com/opensourcerequest and beg them, and if they decide you are worthy, they will email you a link to a tarball, which is hosted on Google Drive.

This is absolutely not a witch-hunt. People in that position wield enormous power and take their paycheck and responsibility that comes with it. Linking to his professional linked in relation to his responsibility is nothing but professional.

Why not, his linkedin profile is public and easily findable. This is not doxxing.

If you are worried about internet witch-hunts I'd stay away from the "creators" and content that Google platforms and makes money from on Youtube.

anything but holding people accountable for their anti-consumer actions

I think it's a stretch to call OP doing a "witch-hunt" here. That Android guy is a mini LinkedIn celebrity with 100k followers.

You know what? Fuck that guy. And it's a public profile. LinkedIn is basically an advertising platform. If you are on it, you are putting yourself out there to the whole world, on purpose.