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Can rhe GNU/ Linux Foundation Fork Android and Maintain it?
With google following apple’s walled garden, and limiting third party app installations, can someone else big (nonprofit like GNU or Linux foundation) fork and maintain android? Reason for choosing someone big is for mass adoption
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Could that happen? No. A massive amount of android development comes from employees paid by google to do it. What amount of resources should be siphoned away from linux/gnu stuff to support android developers? None. Is it possible though? No. Android is a proprietary binary blob core (idr if kernel is the right term) with a bunch of open source stuff wrapped around it. For gnu, that part would have to be rewritten and that’s too big a job to take on. Should it happen? Again, no. There are already plenty of alternatives to google branded android. Just use those. Even if you were to wave a wand and make the android custodians according to your will, play services, the thing google is restricting, is still googles thing.
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