Do you think it may be related to the monopoly issues they are currently facing?
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month agoYeah, just that this has shit to do with the stated reasons. Google hasn’t been an open source ally for quite some time now
Toes@ani.social 1 month ago
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Quite possibly, the GrapheneOS team seems to think so:
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Yup, the entire culture of Google has nearly changed. It used to be coder- and innovation-driven, and open-source was a natural thing to support. Make more money by growing the pie, creating markets with new tech.
Now it seems it’s middle managers and MBAs calling the shots, and their strategy is generic business zero-sum mindset - lock down, restrict, extract. They still see the PR value in open-source, but that’s it.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Just another example of enshittification from a publicly traded company. Nothing really new here.