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Re:VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code by Liquix on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:28PM (#37384676)
Apple released OS X/Darwin open source, but kept the moneymaking frameworks (cocoa, carbon) closed source. This generated positive PR while keeping the secret sauce needed to ship polished applications under lock and key

Google released Android open source, but then made unlocking bootloaders and flashing devices as difficult as possible for laymen. So they get to point at AOSP and say "open source" but in practice the vast majority of users end up running proprietary builds with big G's telemetry baked in

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Re:VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code by dataangel on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:36PM (#37384788)
This is just incorrect regarding Google. The phones they actually make, the Pixel ones, have open bootloaders.
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Re:VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code by noman-land on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:44PM (#37384865)
Chromium also?
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Re:VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code by the_pwner224 on Monday September 04, 2023 @07:05PM (#37386034)
Unlocking and flashing Androids is (in general) much easier today than it was 10 years ago, mostly due to Google's efforts with fastboot and other software infrastructure. Modern Pixels are really easy to hack on.

> in practice the vast majority of users end up running proprietary builds with big G's telemetry baked in

The vast majority of users are always going to do this, regardless of how easy it is to install a custom OS.

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