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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  • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    …worse for users. Better for them…in the shirt term. That’s the real issue. Short term Profit overrules everything in modern corporations.

    • SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de
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      24 hours ago

      …worse for users. Better for them…in the shirt term. That’s the real issue. Short term Profit overrules everything in public corporations.

      Family-owned companies still think long term and stakeholders (vs. shareholders).

      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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        19 hours ago

        That is very very very often also not the case. There are probably many shitty private companies as public.

        See: Cargill, Koch industries, Schwartz group, state farm and pretty much every insurance company in the US, deloitte, publix, subway, McKinsey, Vitol, etc…

        • SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de
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          19 hours ago

          I didn’t talk about how good the companies were. Just their focus on short/long term objectives.

          All the companies you mentioned are focused on long term goals (at least the ones I know). So you do confirm what I write 😃