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An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution (keepandroidopen.org)
submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by antonim@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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We, the undersigned organizations representing civil society, nonprofit institutions, and technology companies, write to express our strong opposition to Google’s announced policy requiring all Android app developers to register centrally with Google themselves in order to distribute applications outside of the Google Play Store, set to take effect worldwide in the coming months.

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[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 1 hour ago

I'd like to see an general computing bill that makes it mandatory for hardware developers to release all the source code with schemics.

As well as an mandatory requirement to be forbidden from walled garden behaviour.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 24 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Wen Linux phones.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You can already kind of use them now, although they could still use some work from what I can tell.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 6 hours ago

I only know about PinePhone, Purism Librem, Jolla and postmarketOS..

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today -3 points 6 hours ago

~15 years ago

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.zip/comment/24854923