Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
by greenhouse_gas on Friday March 10, 2017 @12:08PM
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1. Most of Android is Open Source - see Amazon Fire, for example. Is there an equivalent of that on windows?
2. MS took apple's approach that everything (on their new platform) must go through the store.
Even if right now they give exceptions, it's as I said above an example of them trying to build market share. Will they have an "Unknown Sources" button when they get 80% of the market?
Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
by Nullabillity on Friday March 10, 2017 @09:52AM
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Openness is about being able to modify it and share it with people, not about being able to get Android to adopt it.
For a long time even the GNU project had a similar cathedral-style approach of secretive development processes and no outside contributions.
You might have a point when there is a CyanogenMod/LineageOS equivalent for Windows.
It's open source in name only. All development is done behind closed doors and essentially dumped out in the open when Google determines it's ready for a release. No one else has say in the development process and you can't contribute changes either.
All the other things you mentioned, can also be done on Windows. I am not sure how that's different than what Windows does/is doing.