Post #2428592
2025-12-12 11:07 UTC
@spipau@mastodon.social @tbernard@mastodon.social microG could be continued without me. There are other contributors and certainly enough developers that could contribute. But that is because microG is a free software community project.
Android in contrast is exclusively developed by Google. AOSP is merely a code dump, it's almost impossible for non-Googlers to contribute to Android or AOSP. Even if you were to fork it, you won't have the necessary developer and security researcher power to compete.
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@larma@mastodon.social 2025-12-12 11:11
@spipau@mastodon.social @tbernard@mastodon.social Thus, rather than forking Android, we'd be better advised not to build on top of AOSP and instead use the free software platforms we already have as a basis, making use of the huge amount of developer effort and research put into free software Linux distributions and apps running on them, and making that available to smartphones. @postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems is laying the groundwork here and initiatives like @modal@mastodon.design are pushing to build the remaining pieces to have something that can compete.