• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Because Google is an evil empire that is governed by money, and opensource can’t be monetized for advertisements.

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      16 days ago

      opensource can’t be monetized for advertisements.

      It can!

      That’s what Google did with Android: Google literally made a free open-source operating system everybody could copy, use and develop for for free, to create a wildly successful ecosystem.

      Once the ecosystem was fully developed, slowly, year after year, Google moved features out of the open-source AOSP project and into their proprietary stack. Look at AOSP now: it’s a shadow of its former self.

      And now they’re killing off AOSP and AOSP-derivatives and turning Android into their own Apple-style walled garden.

      I’d say Google very successfully used open-source to its advantage. Google sure knows how to play the long game.