• Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Quick question: If Google doesn’t want to own Android anymore, why don’t they make it public domain instead of trying everything to kill it?

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      6 hours ago

      They want Android very much and all the data that goes with it.

      They don’t want you to use Android in a way that doesn’t let them harvest your data.

      • BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca
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        5 hours ago

        This. It’s shocking how many people in tech circles still see Google as anything other than a data harvester for ads.

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      6 hours ago

      What makes you think they want to kill it? I think they regret choosing GPL software to base it on, and dgaf about the small segment of people who use forks, except to worry that one of them might take off with an OEM and regular people.