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[kuschku]

Android is a very bad example in that list. Most of the rest makes sense, but Android doesn’t.

Android is a project where nowadays not even the dialing app is open source anymore, nor the calendar, email, home screen, nor camera.

Android is a project where OEMs are banned from shipping competing forks of Android as long as they ship a single device with Google’s Android.

[icebraining → kuschku]

And yet thanks to it we have Replicant, LineageOS, CopperheadOS and even - Microsoft-funded Cyanogen OS.

It may not be great, but where the Windows Phone equivalent?

[spacemanmatt → kuschku]

Sounds like a complaint that Google has open-sourced the OS they derive their product from, rather than open-sourcing their proprietary product.

[kuschku → spacemanmatt]

Google had open sourced all of Android, until 7 years ago.

In 2010, even the Google Search and Google Talk apps were open source.

But Google is moving every year more of these features into the proprietary apps.

Nowadays you can’t even use the OpenGL ES drivers anymore without going through the proprietary Play Services.