Part of why it’s this way is the expense of getting anything approved! I blame our bureaucracy as much as I blame those types

Maybe not the mainstream news_papers_ of today, but likely much of the news

They’re never getting those integrations back though, e.g. Spotify. Those are usually implemented in each company’s servers rather than something that can be brokered locally through an API. That needs to change

Wow, it’s not a joke

Projects are not their authors. Please give the politics a rest. I’ve had enough of politics lately.

TL; DR-- There are many good reasons for regular people to prefer GrapheneOS

Hey, the security is nice, but I really like the detailed control over notifications, GMS prompts, and network access. When I used PixelOS, my phone did things I didn’t want it to, and it was hard or impossible to make it stop. On GrapheneOS, the defaults are a pretty good experience. I even recommend it to non-techies since they can use it with the Google apps and its still a more respectful experience, even if they don’t need or want the level of control that I like.

From a coal mine? What is this, 1890?

People deserve to get paid on their work, and currently the best way to do that and survive in America is to work on completely closest source products that don’t respect their users. Open source is probably the most respectful but doesn’t work well as a business. We need something that works reliably for delivering real products that will achieve mass adoption. I think these source available licenses are that.

The context in the article is important. Similar to what FUTO preaches-- people don’t donate. That’s why corporate solutions usually win. Better to charge a bit of money so we can have nice things.

The plan was to rely on donations, which doesn’t usually work for hosted products.