Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases

>>colone+(OP)
Android has been bad-faith open source for as long as I can remember. Android is look-but-dont-touch source. Its massive codebase that requires immense resources to build is not open for negotiation, its existence is to serve Google's whims.

Android was already a platform on life support. Google has wielded its authority to dictate how apps should behave such that even 3rd party stores do not stray far from Google's rules. Users of android phones have little hope to run a program from 5 years ago, or to roll back a bad update in an era full of bad updates.

>>bitsan+5i
Let's not expand the term open source to automatically mean community driven development or free software. Neither need apply for a project to be open source.

> its existence is to serve Google's whims

Ah, yeah... the existence of every major project is to satisfy the companies paying for the development. Linux has been over 80% corporate commits every year since 2003. Blender is funded by 35 corporations. Not one open source project larger than a library has gotten anywhere major without corporate sponsorship.

>>gjsman+dj
> Not one open source project larger than a library has gotten anywhere major without corporate sponsorship.

Let's think on this statement a little. From top of my head:

    - VLC
    - Darktable
    - rsync
    - KDE as in the Desktop Environment
    - Clementine Music Player
    - MusicBrainz Picard
    - GIMP
    - Zotero
    - GNU Octave
    - Kid3
    - KMail
    - etc, etc...

>>bayind+Fc1
Those projects all heavily rely on libraries developed via corporate paycheck.

>>izacus+0B1
Let's not move the goalposts. The original claim was "if there's no corporate sponsorship, you can't have apps".

These apps are not sponsored by corporations directly.

Also, your point is untenable. The moment someone patches something while being employed by a company, that thing becomes "developed via corporate paycheck". This also makes the small tools developed by oneself "developed via corporate paycheck", because while the person was at home, and it was 2AM, They also had a job paying their bills somehow.

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