Re:A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Androi...
by solarkraft on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:59AM
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Have you tried it? (Especially considering the things you mention) It works phenomenally well.
Re:A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Androi...
by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:05AM
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You do realize that I wasn't dinging the project, right?
In fact, I'm fairly impressed, and I sincerely wish you guys well.
As someone who has also pursued ambitious open-source efforts (some, successful; most, not so successful), I can sympathize, but I am also pretty practical (comes from many years as a manager).
Re:A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Androi...
by impassionedrule on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:50PM
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MicroG has been around for years at this point
From what I can see, the "government support" is actually a fairly general (and limited) one-time grant. The badge may give the impression that it's more.
It seems to have only two contributors: https://github.com/orgs/microg/people
They may be pretty awesome programmers, but they are working on something to compete with another project that is currently supported by...a larger number...of full-time, salaried developers.
These two developers have a rather scary number of issues to address: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues
Their status page seems to have some room to grow: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status
I sincerely wish them luck, but they have their work cut out for them.