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>>joseph+(OP)
This really reminds me of Open Solaris.

> We will no longer distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating system in real-time

In the case of Open Solaris, the code never came out from that point onwards. For Android, the likely end goal is to do the bare minimum of distributing only copyleft code that they don't own copyright to. Until those get replaced with a closed alternative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2482s

>>sorami+yj
But copyleft is bad and everyone should use BSD ...

Code is turned proprietary by huge corporate with massive development resources. No one could have predicted this.

>>rwmj+Au
Stallman was right again.

>>bogwog+PK
The dude is solid as it gets on all this.

Yet people ignore him and then realize that was one of those too late types

>>ddingu+eU
none of us have economic incentives to build global infrastrcture. Let me know what governments decide among the people that there's value in open source and it's software

>>cyanyd+xm1
Agreed, but I doubt governments would be good stewards of open source either. They engage in illegal mass surveillance, cyber warfare, and is constantly trying to undermine encryption.

>>sorami+wn1
in the abstract, governments are indistinguishable from any other collective of people.

So yeah, if open source orgs can keep going, there's no reason to think government can't do the same. It's about public goods.

>>cyanyd+hq1
> in the abstract, governments are indistinguishable from any other collective of people.

Sure, but in reality they have a legal monopoly on the use of violence, which is a very big deal and makes them qualitatively different from any other collective of people.