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        See, that’s the situation where we just don’t use them. I’m talking about wiping the original OS and putting something that’s really FOSS in its place.

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      That can be easily done with AOSP, to my knowledge there’s no Google stuff in there. Which is exactly what they’re using right now

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        There still is some google stuff in there, like for example phoning google servers to check internet connectivity among other stuff.

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          Yes, but those minor traces are easy enough to remove, especially if you don’t care about being “ceritified” by Google (i.e. are not planning to run the Google services).

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            Right but the topic was about google’s data harvesting and what I meant was that you can’t just grab any AOSP distribution if you want to minimize that, you need to pick one that replaces the parts that send data to google. LineageOS for example still phones google for quite a number of services.

            As far as “easy to remove” goes, I think that’s kind of debatable if you want to do it in a way that’s sustainable long term considering the effort that goes into e.g. GrapheneOS or DivestOS.

            Edit: here is a list of the kind of stuff you need to watch out for if you want to minimize the data sent to google

            https://divestos.org/pages/network_connections

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    Curious if it’ll be opensource and mobile linux distro. If Amazon gets into the mobile linux game, the mobile phone market might change radically.

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      You seem confused. Amazon is in the business of stealing open source project in order to sell them as AWS services, not making them.

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    The author is exited but I’m not. I am not a big fan of corporations taking the free work of FOSS developers and turning it into a proprietary dystopia.

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      I think that having a strong public domain is good for everyone. For instance properties like Sherlock Holmes really took off once it was in the public domain and people could write spin-offs and whatnot without worry that a copyright lawyer would come along and sue them.

      Linux is the same thing, Amazon using the kernel and stuff to build an OS on doesn’t take anything away from anyone else who uses Linux as a desktop or server environment, and in fact can lead to some good pass back, even if it is just that the devices are easier to root. Take a look at the Open-wrt project, where Linksys built their router on top of a Linux kernel and it led to a whole ecosystem of open routers. People went out of their way to buy a WRT-42G just with the intent of rooting it, and Linksys got their money either way.

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        If it were anyone other than Amazon or Apple.

        Speaking of which, isn’t MacOS Linux based these days? How much have they contributed back? (Genuine question)

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          It’s pretty annoying you replied to someone’s nice, well thought out comment with your own bullshit. Then speculated about something you could have googled in 7 seconds max.

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          A quick search confirms that MacOS is based from proprietary BSD UNIX code. It is not compatible with Linux