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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    2 days ago

    …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).

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      1 day ago

      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…

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        1 day 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 😃