Android Open Source Project (AOSP) Isn't Freedom, Even If Android Contains Linux (GPL)
"Free Software Freedom is Not Linux," as Thomas Grzybowski explained 3 years ago
THE big gains and the strides of Android in Microsoft territories may give comfort and solace to those who reject Windows. It might even give cause for celebration to those who dislike Microsoft and love the Linux brand (Android has Linux in it!). But Android is not freedom and over time it moves further away from "Open Source" too. I quit covering Android in my Daily Links because I saw the trajectory it had taken around the release of Android "O". Listening devices were becoming customary, privacy ceased to matter, and now they demonise people running their software of choice.
Even when proprietary and DRM game companies call Android an ‘fake open platform’ (it's in the news this week, quoting Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney) and even when we distrust them and their hypocrisy we should still take note of what Google has turned the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) into. It's like another Apple. Mr. Sweeney would know... █