Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no...
by SEJeff on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:44AM
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Not really. AOSP died when Jean-Baptiste Queru quit in protest out of AOSP not really being open source. He works at Yahoo now.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/07/aosp-maintenance-head-lea...
They've already won; Apple isn't coming back (did they "go thermonuclear" in the end or did that nonsense die with Mr Magical Thinking?).
Don't confuse Android with Google; you can grab the source and do what you want with it, like Cyanogenmod have, or like millions of hobbyists are doing themselves. It's all available with bog standard open source licenses - no need to worry about ethics.