With google following apple’s walled garden, and limiting third party app installations, can someone else big (nonprofit like GNU or Linux foundation) fork and maintain android? Reason for choosing someone big is for mass adoption and that google is slowly boiling the pot to see what enshittification it could get away with
I’d disagree with that. The fact that they maintain a really good privacy respecting OS publicly available and open source is a point to me
What OS do they maintain? Linux is not an OS, but a kernel that powers many different OS’s, even Android.
I mean they fund kernel development which in turn indirectly funds OS . Like, what would the OS run without a kernel
I don’t think the linux foundation founds any other kernel besides linux (they found plenty of other stuff ofc). And Linux is hardly the only (production ready and stable) kernel around.
There’s the BSD family, that has the most popular kernels besides Linux. I think there’s also a couple more use-case specialised ones like Illumos. And there’s some experimental kernels, like Hurd (I think there’s a Hurd/GNU Ubuntu or Debian official distro around) or RedoxOs
How familiar are you with the Linux foundation?