Posts by objbuilder

This is well known for over a decade but seemingly Americans don't actually care. The two senators who are passionate about this and attempting reform are routinely ignored. Specifically Ron Wyden, D-OR and Rand Paul, R-KY. Please support them even if you disagree with their other policies if you care about this and want actual change.

This goes against the entire reason Android was created. Highly doubt it's true. Many devs choose Android (over Apple) specifically because it's open-source.

It doesn't even make sense. The day after something like this is announced, the race is ON with 50 forked projects all competing for mindshare - it's the old UNIX wars relived. Highly likely a new 'universal' app store would crop up as well, losing Google all its app-store revenue.

They would still need to release code to their partners/carriers. No way this happens.