🚨 Say that I were to give a talk to EU policy makers and OSS communities at a very big conference tomorrow..
and that I want to spend half of my talk on how Google is locking down #Android through:
1. Device attestation
2. Developer registration
3. Age/identity verification
What should I absolutely include? 👀
Input is welcome, sorry for the short notice. Plain language + realistic calls to action pls.
@fdroidorg @GrapheneOS @postmarketOS @Fairphone @appfair @fsfe @murena @volla @IzzyOnDroid
Boosting and tagging is appreciated, DM's are welcome too.
I really want to get this right, so please only use verified information. And yes, I'll be mentioning https://keepandroidopen.org/ extensively.
(And yes I will also mention Apple and the role of the DMA, but only briefly. More info: https://mastodon.social/@kirschner/116440678455335985)
@Gina this article seems to be well informed. https://www.howtogeek.com/android-is-abandoning-the-open-source-roots-it-never-really-had/
If I read it right google makes it hard for other users of the code to make android forks by releasing only once a half year opensource code. Thats abuse of power of course. Als they take out parts of the system and put those into apps that are closed source.
Abuse of power to make life difficult for competitors should rings bells in the eu.
#android #google #eu #OpenSourceCommunity #opensource
Gina
Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜
Dagnabbit, Pascaline ! 💥