Apparently, #Google has lost track of their goal for #Android "We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, where one industry player could restrict or control the innovations of any other. " https://web.archive.org/web/20120501080416/http://source.android.com/about/philosophy.html
That page is 404 Not Found now...
... also, this product is really cool, according to our nerd surveys, so off to the Google graveyard it goes.
@RandamuMaki @eighthave Makes sense for a company that does not understand "no"
@Epic_Null @eighthave Just like most (if not all) abusers.
@eighthave What was the SPOF back then? The user's ISP?
@eighthave Blackberry, perhaps?
@eighthave they lied since the begening
Reality is : they are capitalists, and they are aware to be fascists
@heyla @eighthave I don't think they lied from the beginning. I think in the beginning the Do No Evil motto was actually honored and heartfelt. That Google fell to corruption and died and is no more. And the new Google under Alphabet has made itself a single point of failure for everything it does. Clearly then, all sensible people should avoid it whenever possible.
@eighthave wow thanks for posting this
@eighthave Looks like a reproducible pattern, delete the evidences, then do whatever you want.
Storytelling is the new true.
And at the same time Donald is running for peace.....😅
@indigotime That's a link to the source code for the source.android.com website, specifically the "jb-dev" branch which was last updated in 2012. Nice idea to look at the source code, here you can see the actual commit where they removed the "philosophy" in 2014:
@eighthave They meant "where one industry player who isn't us could restrict or control the innovations of us"
@eighthave Why I keep saying that Android should be hard forked and completely made independent of Google while the licensing permits it. Because once they decide to relicense Android under some proprietary license or slap a whopping big NDA to even glimpse at its code, we are collectively fucked.
Distros are great but a hard fork is key.
@eighthave @IzzyOnDroid I love the smell of bait&switch in the morning!
@eighthave @IzzyOnDroid
They succeeded! They did it by killing most of the industry players.
@eighthave Google only remembers "Do Evil" nowadays.