I don’t know, but I’m not sure if a government funded fork would be the right move.
Many people have their doubts about using funding for things like that, I wouldn’t be opposed to it but Europe has other problems that people might consider more urgent.
I mean, it’s the Android Open Source Project. Restricting it would be against the interests of the Free Software/Open Source movements and I believe that’s a violation on the principles of the project in my opinion.
They should focus on not letting Google kill Android.
Do the EU have the capability to fork it?
I don’t know, but I’m not sure if a government funded fork would be the right move.
Many people have their doubts about using funding for things like that, I wouldn’t be opposed to it but Europe has other problems that people might consider more urgent.
OK. So in that case the easiest thing to do is to hand out fines.
It would absolutely be the right move. Some individual countries are already doing this and there are proposals for EU to do the same:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Sovereign_Tech_Fund
Yeah, it would be so much easier for the eu to do chat control is they controlled the while os
That’s not how any of that works.
Is “kill” a strong word here? They are heavily restricting it, and it’s reversible with some effort, know-how, and compromise, right?
But killing it, I feel like they are not. Even though I strongly oppose what they are doing, don’t get me wrong!
I mean, it’s the Android Open Source Project. Restricting it would be against the interests of the Free Software/Open Source movements and I believe that’s a violation on the principles of the project in my opinion.
These changes don’t affect AOSP. Basically if the phone comes with the Google play store it is affected. AOSP doesn’t have Google play in it.
I forgot that, thank you.
I would agree, but I wouldn’t say they are killing the project. 👍