- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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.
Originally published on The Lever, but that one asks you to sign up.
Family-owned companies still think long term and stakeholders (vs. shareholders).
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…
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 😃
How many of those are developing smartphones?
Is greed specific to smartphone-producing companies?