Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid
rmrf@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoAs someone whose job runs several FOSS projects, I think you’re making up the fact that it adds meaningful workload.
I think that, for all intents and purposes, protecting IP is equivalent to stifling competition.
I think giving away code benefits the entire Android ecosystem, which might be the largest data mining operating Google has. I fully believe that’s of nonzero benefit.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
It spent have to be meaningful extra workload for it to cost them millions/billions of dollars because of their size.