Comment on How did Android's update support become so inconsistent?

• ThankYouVeryMuch@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Right? And also two things:

  First, android is FOSS the same as Darwin (the system under iOS) is. Apple puts its proprietary drivers, ui, and other apps the same as android phone vendors do.

  An second, Free Software/Open Source doesn't mean that you have to ship the phone with all the code anyone pushes. You have control of your repository. You can pay developers and only include the software the build. FOSS means that the user of the software has access to the source code, as well as other rights like modifying or redistributing it.

  I see in a lot of discussion about free software some people say things like 'the code is open to everyone so you don't know what they can put there' as if there were no filter or anything

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  • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t understand…

    First, android is FOSS the same as Darwin (the system under iOS) is. Apple puts its proprietary drivers, ui, and other apps the same as android phone vendors do.

    I made sure to mention AOSP since Pixel UI is the proprietary version. Plus, even if Android contains GMS and whatnot, I mentioned that since it’s open source, you can see what you like or do not like.

    I’ll try to reword my comment later tho… It can definitely do with a bit more context. I just wanted to make sure it was simple to understand for someone who was asking on nostupidquestions. (How do we link a community on Lemmy? Like on reddit we used to type r/whatever.)

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• ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, but the question only spoke about Windows and Android so I tried not to dive too deep into other things… I assumed the community is for simple and to the point answers…

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  • mcforest@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But your answer could be interpreted as "a FOSS OS can never maintained for a big variety of hardware over a long life cycle" which would be totally wrong. Android's driver situation might be shit but that has nothing to do with an "open system" vs a "closed system". My knowledge regarding this topic is not deep enough to give a perfect answer but I think other posts here sound more plausible.

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    • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t wanna sound too defensive but I did say this

      That takes considerable effort, although if they chose to focus on a select few devices every year, they’d be able to do so.

      I agree that I can reword it to make that clear, but I don’t think, nor do I hope anyone will make that conclusion about FOSS…

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