Android is Proprietary 'Linux' and It Becomes More Malicious Over Time, Google Only Delayed What It Planned All Along
And Microsoft OSI has just celebrated this openwashing by GAFAM: (latest post by Microsoft Vidal)
Last week: Of Course Android is Not Free Software
After some procrastination (Google waiting for the fire to run out of 'fuel') Google goes ahead with what it planned all along (Android becoming more proprietary and "closed" at the "app" level). With 'attestation' in the pipeline for GNU/Linux and for browsers (Google keeps pushing for this) we're seeing the end days of Software Freedom, but only if we go along with this.
'Attestation' mindset is already promoted by pushers of TPMs, restricted boot, rootkits and back doors. They hardly hide these intentions of theirs; they serve GAFAM and DRM agenda. They attack GAFAM's critics and attack real security professionals*.
Meanwhile AOSP is turning from "Open Source" to rare "code dumps", Android "apps" are just some little prisons controlled by GAFAM (anything else is doomed because it is deemed "sideloading"), and "Google Chrome Moving To A Two-Week Release Cycle", which means it's harder to catch up with Google if one relies on making "clones".
Google is a proprietary software giant, GSoC is only a distraction and confusion.
Revisit "Google's Software is Malware" at gnu.org for more examples of the same. It is updated regularly. █
____ * As a comment put it 14 minutes ago in IRC and in a GAFAM site:
"This New York law would "require all manufacturers of Internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation."Wouldn't that effectively ban all computing devices that are sold without a factory-installed operating system, and also all user-installable operating systems because their installation process happens after the "device activation", whatever it means?
So that law basically mandates all new computers to be boot locked to the factory-installed OS, or else the manufacturer will face a $10,000 fine for each sold unit.
And it would also make reinstalling an operating system a crime - or manufacturing a device where the operating system can be reinstalled - even if it is the same OS that was already there from the factory!
All new 64-bit x86 computers already have infrastructure required for enforcing this law on their ROM. It is known as UEFI Secure Boot. The manufacturers only need to push an automatic firmware update that makes it impossible to disable.
Those laws in other states "only" make writing your own operating system a punishable crime that will most probably send the developer to a prison until the end of their life, because the fines are so astronomically high that no-one can ever pay them.
How is it possible that Pirate Parties or EFF do not have anything to say about this?