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>>transp+(OP)
Google sold Android to nerds as open source. We thought that mobile operating systems would be won by the "Linux of mobile OSs."

But Google has made sure that didn't happen and we're left with devices more locked down than the proprietary Windows ecosystem we were hoping to leave in the past - and with a company in charge looking to exert even more power over us than Microsoft did.

>>mdasen+Ll
The trick is adding a ton of features which expose extra attack surface that needs them to maintain and fix, under the pretense that it will make everyone's life easier. Make it complicated enough so that the community cannot maintain it, enabling the corporation to throw its weight around.

>>arcane+po
It’s the perfected form of what MS was trying to achieve with IE back in the 90s. All the power of a closed source monopoly, further enhanced by friends and foes alike incorporating your tech as a load-bearing pillar of their strategies, with a cloak of plausible deniability in the form of an open source repo protecting you from antitrust enforcement. A true have your cake and eat it situation.