Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source capacity over the last decade.

Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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  • redhat421@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Those apps are installed in the squashfs image. Such images are write once, read many and thus they can’t be mutated at runtime.