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Can the GNU/ Linux Foundation Fork Android and Maintain it? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by FukOui@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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With google following apple's walled garden, and limiting third party app installations, can someone else big (nonprofit like GNU or Linux foundation) fork and maintain android? Reason for choosing someone big is for mass adoption and that google is slowly boiling the pot to see what enshittification it could get away with

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[–] FukOui@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Not yet, but as long as google is in charge, they would keep enshitifying it gradually (hence boiling the pot/frog).

Quoting https://keepandroidopen.org/ """ Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own.

Worse: this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can change it, tighten it, or kill it at any time, with no OS update required and no consent needed. And as of today, it hasn't shipped in any beta, preview, or canary build. It exists only as a blog post and some mockups.

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The principle being established: the company that made your device gets to decide, after you've bought it, what software you're allowed to run. In software, this is called a "rug pull"; but at least you could always install competing software. In hardware, it is a fait accompli that strips you of your agency and renders you powerless to the whims of a single unaccountable gatekeeper and convicted monopolist. "'"