Comment by drnick1
12 hours ago
Free software may have won on the infrastructure side, but it is people's computing that deserves freedom first and foremost. The good news is that Linux is gaining ground on the desktop, and we may eventually see the "year of the Linux desktop."
The issue is that most people's computing has now shifted to mobile devices, and these are quickly becoming fully locked down. Apple has been a lost cause for a long time, but Google is now aggressively attempting to kill Android as a FOSS platform. Projects like Lineage and Graphene are more important than ever for this reason.
Google is not aggressively attempting to kill Android as a FOSS platform. It has always been 99% developed by Google and a handful of close partners like Samsung. It is simply aligning workflows to make this arrangement less costly to maintain. The fact that Graphene is hurt by the change was simply not part of the consideration. I'm sure they can alter their arrangement to get similar access to other partners and continue on as before.