Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

...worse for users. Better for them...in the shirt term. That's the real issue. Short term Profit overrules everything in public corporations.

Family-owned companies still think long term and stakeholders (vs. shareholders).

[–] JustEnoughDucks 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That is very very very often also not the case. There are probably many shitty private companies as public.

See: Cargill, Koch industries, Schwartz group, state farm and pretty much every insurance company in the US, deloitte, publix, subway, McKinsey, Vitol, etc...

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

I didn't talk about how good the companies were. Just their focus on short/long term objectives.

All the companies you mentioned are focused on long term goals (at least the ones I know). So you do confirm what I write 😃

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How many of those are developing smartphones?

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

Is greed specific to smartphone-producing companies?