Comment by swiftcoder
Comment by swiftcoder 2 months ago
Android (and to some extent, Chromium) are weird cases of a major corporation weaponising open-source to broaden their already market-dominant position.
Android in doesn't even accept patches from the like of you or I, and future versions are developed almost entirely in secret.
SQLite is developed in a similar way, by the way. Maintainers aren't required to accept community patches. It's not part of the four freedoms or whatever. Realistically, open-source licences only give the user the rights to use the software, redistribute it and fork if needed, but no "voting" rights regarding the upstream copy.
You're talking about open development and governance, which are often associated with open-source, but aren't required.