Comment by EGreg
11 years ago
If AOSP is open source and Google updates let's say the location services, why can't anyone start a similar project for AOSP and have it funded (like by Apache or Mozilla)?
It seems that the main problem is the gatekeepers who manufacture phones.
Mozilla makes Firefox OS. They don't have the resources to also fix Android and what not, I think. Apache takes a few projects under its wing but they don't provide the developers, and thus many of their projects are stalling.
That, or someone to maintain a generic shim/interface so that the proprietary services are interchangeable