Google: The China Debacle and More

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Chinese developers fear losing open source tech to trade war [Ed: Wait for Trump to tell Microsoft to block GitHub in China. Maybe then people will wake up and realise it's time to abandon US-centric centralisation and abandon GitHub.]
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What is Android Open Source Project(AOSP) and why it now matters for Huawei and other OEMs [Ed: AOSP and Android are not the same but it's an 'insurance policy']
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Huawei Prepares For Possibility of Losing Its American Tech Partners [Ed: Article speaks of Free software. Huawei is going to use a lot more Free software. China in general will shun these US brands and move to Free software. Please delete GitHub (move elsewhere) as Microsoft would block it in China if asked by the USG. Dozens of puff pieces like this one from Asay about "GitHub Sponsors" this past week; it's yet another reason to abandon for a number of observations worth making. Microsoft can now use its control of GitHub to spy (private repos are now 'free'), to censor code (as GitHub already did years prior), defund, manipulate the licence choices and hosting choices (e.g. Azure). It's all about leverage and disruption. Be very suspicious of a serial GPL violator such as Microsoft pretending that it cares about income for FOSS projects (that aren't serving proprietary software such as Windows).]
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Fund Your Favourite Open-Source Projects Using Github's New Sponsorship Program [Ed: Microsoft as a bank. Can block (or defund) payments to FOSS from/for anyone it doesn't like, even for political purposes (see what it did to GAB).]
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Google's Recent Huawei Ban Makes a Strong Case For Open Source Software
Except for iOS in Apple devices the mobile OS market used to be very fragmented. Nokia had Symbian, Samsung had Bada and Blackberry rocked BlackBerry OS. Then came the formation of the Open Handset Alliance by Google, HTC, Sony and a few other manufacturers and Android 1.0 was born.
Android really shaped up well thanks to Google and the phenomenal Dev community behind it. Android was also lauded for having a very open ecosystem that didn’t bias between manufacturers. Anyone could ship devices with Android, but licensing was required for Google Play services, which include Google’s suite of Apps like Gmail and Maps
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As stock Android spreads, is it time for Android manufacturer skins to die?
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5 Exciting Facts About Kubernetes On The Eve Of Its 5th Anniversary
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Google and Binomial come together to open-source Basis Universal Texture Format
The team at Google and Binomial announced that they have partnered to open source the Basis Universal texture format.
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Google invests in Cambridge open source venture
Global technology giant Google has injected unspecified investment into and joined the board of Cambridge UK open source system on a chip innovator lowRISC C.I.C.
The University of Cambridge Computer Lab spin-out is also hiring fast to expand its engineering team to underpin rapid scale-up of its technology.
lowRISC C.I.C. tells Business Weekly that Professor Luca Benini (ETH Zurich), Dominic Rizzo (Google) and Ron Minnich (Google) have joined its board and that the announcement coincides with a new phase of hiring with the goal of significantly increasing the size of its ideaSpace Cambridge-based engineering team during 2019.
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