Open Source Computing

Week 11

Week of March 31

Monday

AOSP is becoming ACSP. Well, development branches (in git) will no longer be open. Though Google still claims that completed principle versions (numbered versions) of Android will be released as open source.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases.

The Android kernel is Linux, so Google cannot distribute changed versions of that without providing source.

Cathedral v Bazaar

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