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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.




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