• @Patch@feddit.uk
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    28 months ago

    Android is already free software, and see how far that gets you. The kicker is that you’re tied into their services (with all the data harvesting, targeted advertising and monetisation that that involves).

    • @SatyrSack
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      68 months ago

      If you’re tied to their non-free services, then its not free software.

      • @baconicsynergy@beehaw.org
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        38 months ago

        Yes, because it is permissively open source, not only are these companies free to build what they want - we are entitled to that same right. We therefore created LineageOS and GrapheneOS, and its really great.

        There’s also a lot of motivated people getting regular Linux distributions running on mobile devices too, so we have that as well