lnl's weblog · Jul 8, 2023
Android is not free, let's get to work about it
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In the standards field, Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish is a strategy for gaining users of an open standard, and breaking it to lock them in. This does not exactly match Android, as it is a software project, rather than a standard. But it resonates with its story of making the open source effectively unusable without proprietary extensions. Warning: if I wasn't enough of a techie to do some…
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