We, the undersigned organizations representing civil society, nonprofit institutions, and technology companies, write to express our strong opposition to Google’s announced policy requiring all Android app developers to register centrally with Google themselves in order to distribute applications outside of the Google Play Store, set to take effect worldwide in the coming months.
Wen Linux phones.
You can already kind of use them now, although they could still use some work from what I can tell.
I only know about PinePhone, Purism Librem, Jolla and postmarketOS…
Also kupfer (pmos but arch), ubports (ex Ubuntu touch) and droidian (similar to ubports with being halium-based but Debian and conventional DEs, hence, it’s supposed to actually run software). Mobile-nixos, to some extent, although it’s more of a PoC, in my experience
~15 years ago
I’d like to see an general computing bill that makes it mandatory for hardware developers to release all the source code with schemics.
As well as an mandatory requirement to be forbidden from walled garden behaviour.
We, the undersigned organizations representing civil society, nonprofit institutions, and technology companies, write to express our strong opposition to Google’s announced policy requiring all Android app developers to register centrally with Google themselves in order to distribute applications outside of the Google Play Store, set to take effect worldwide in the coming months.
