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Re:What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it by trelane on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @01:41PM (#38785042)
> I still remember the "Linux Kernel is now in most devices in the world" when Android came out. This didn't went well, didn't it?

I don't understand your point here. Could you please make it again, more directly?

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Re:What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it by aragilar on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:49PM (#38789815)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Perens is the interviewee. He helped create OSI, which pushed Open Source (vs Free Software).
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Re:What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it by nparafe on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:37AM (#38790708)
Open source supporters were celebrating Google's use of the Linux kernel in Android, hoping that this would promote it's usage. Android is now a Frankenstein spyware monster that uses mostly proprietary software.
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Re:What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it by trelane on Thursday December 28, 2023 @07:29AM (#38792801)
Which android are you referring to? The table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distrib... may help you.

I don't think that, say, Lineage or Calyx share the same privacy concerns as Google's android variant, or the myriad vendors' proprietary forks.

Of course, if most of Android were GPL instead of Apache, the lockin wouldn't be possible.

If you're referring to locked bootloaders and not being able to use the GPL kernel due to that, that was a defect in GPLv2 that was fixed in GPLv3 (that and software patents). TiVo was the one that induced that change, and the term was "tivoization."

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