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Re:Google is about to make life more difficult for custom RO... by luca020400 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:32AM (#36517112)
A lot of people still don't see how the operating system as a whole is open source, not having properly supported open source apps is not the best, but while we can make apps and/or update the aosp versions, we can't make an operating system...
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Re:Google is about to make life more difficult for custom RO... by palata on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:53AM (#36517242)
> A lot of people still don't see how the operating system as a whole is open source

What? Just checkout the sources and go through them, maybe?

> not having properly supported open source apps is not the best

If your definition of "properly supported" means "supported by Google", I guess...

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Re:Google is about to make life more difficult for custom RO... by luca020400 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:57AM (#36517272)
Supported => Supported by Google yes.

I think you misread my comment, or I wasn't clear enough, I work on AOSP daily so I know very well what's in there :)

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Re:Google is about to make life more difficult for custom RO... by palata on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:46AM (#36517607)
Oh, maybe I did misunderstand it, indeed. Sorry :)
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