As a tech community, we should really rally around a libre/free mobile OS and soon. Being beholden to corporations for our operating systems is antithetical to freedom.
And we can have the handsets run on biodiesel and little windmills.
“Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
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Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#22What's the context? Maybe knowing who this individual is would help me? Edit: ah an Android OS dev. I imagine that's a primary party to Android and therefore this individual is kind of an authority.
Google is eradicating all GPL from their mobile offering. Fuschia will let them release a fully closed down platform.
It's far from fully closed, it's just not copyleft anymore.
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#23Why would Google abandon it?
it is going to be replaced with Fuschia OS (i'm sure i probably butchered the name) My understanding is that it will be a pretty much transparent switch for users going from an Android phone to a Fuschia phone -- not sure though.
The mnemonic I use for “fuchsia” is that it’s a flower named after a guy named Fuchs.
It is a bit strange that a search engine company would choose a name that’s so difficult to spell!
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#24Would be bizarre if Google went proprietary with Android and Microsoft were the ones to carry the AOSP torch.
Chromium might be trending in this direction too, with Electron/VSCode and the new Edge.
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#25got an OS for you: have no phone
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#26As a tech community, we should really rally around a libre/free mobile OS and soon. Being beholden to corporations for our operating systems is antithetical to freedom.
There is https://postmarketos.org/
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google is eradicating all GPL from their mobile offering. Fuschia will let them release a fully closed down platform.
Fuchsia is permissively licensed. I swear, copyleft people have the weirdest definition of freedom. How does using a license that lets you do anything with the code, including using it to compete commercially with Google, automatically indicate some nefarious plan to lock down the new platform? If they wanted to do that, why would they release Fuchsia under a permissive license in the first place?
The main difference is that copyleft currently requires some components of all new phones to be released as open source. With a permissive license, many Android vendors will not release anything open source. So you might have a much harder time figuring out how to flash the OS on them or get the drivers to work with them. Obviously some manufacturers will probably still do so, but they won't be required to as they are now.
Which is to say Fuchsia may not be closed source, but a lot of devices built on it probably will be.
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#28What's the context? Maybe knowing who this individual is would help me? Edit: ah an Android OS dev. I imagine that's a primary party to Android and therefore this individual is kind of an authority.
Google is eradicating all GPL from their mobile offering. Fuschia will let them release a fully closed down platform.
I thought Fuschia was BSD licensed? Isn't the source avalible online?
Sure they can add binary blobs, but they do that already with android.
Not that i trust google, because i don't ;)
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#29Why would Google abandon it?
Java
Re: “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google is eradicating all GPL from their mobile offering. Fuschia will let them release a fully closed down platform.
Fuchsia is permissively licensed. I swear, copyleft people have the weirdest definition of freedom. How does using a license that lets you do anything with the code, including using it to compete commercially with Google, automatically indicate some nefarious plan to lock down the new platform? If they wanted to do that, why would they release Fuchsia under a permissive license in the first place?
Most people don’t run software they built from source code on their phone. If what they’ve done with proprietary Android additions is any indication, you’ll have no idea what you’re really running on your Fuchsia device.