Most of the people who complain about stuff like this are those who run custom, degoogled Android ROMs and think they are entitled to Google's work forever.
It's technically true that I run custom degoogled Android ROM.
However, I'm MAKING my own Android ROM. I actually do the job Google implied they would do when they announced Project Treble with Android 8.0 (which is actually providing working new Android versions on older Android vendors).
I'm guessing you don't know my project, so I'm making GSIs, which make Android's Project Treble actually usable to thousands of various devices. If you take Google's Project Treble as-is, you get /at best/ something that is not even a smartphone (you get no in-call audio, assuming you get calls at all, because it doesn't provide VoLTE support). I'm making it actually daily-drivable.
Many users are saying that I'm doing Google's job there, and even some Googlers said so. But of course, it's not in Google's nor the OEM's best interests to do that, which is way this job needs to be done by other people.
Also, I sent dozens of patches to AOSP, with very very small success rate. (While my contributions to Linux were pretty smooth)
My line could have been misinterpreted, and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to interpret yours, so I'll explicit it just in case, because my previous post can be understood both ways:
No, I don't feel entitled to Google's work, the quote was sarcasm.
My point of showing my contributions is that I can do stuff on my own, that I'm happy that Android is opensource, and I do my best to contribute to it, in the opensource spirit. But if it stops being opensource, then so be it (it'd be a bigger shot in the foot for Google than for me anyway), I'm not simply leeching on Google's back, like previous comments assumed.
I'm entitled to Google's work because they made their code open source.
They did it because they wanted to be entitled to someone else's work (the free components they built it on). No one told them they couldn't be proprietary from the ground up.
However, I'm MAKING my own Android ROM. I actually do the job Google implied they would do when they announced Project Treble with Android 8.0 (which is actually providing working new Android versions on older Android vendors).
I'm guessing you don't know my project, so I'm making GSIs, which make Android's Project Treble actually usable to thousands of various devices. If you take Google's Project Treble as-is, you get /at best/ something that is not even a smartphone (you get no in-call audio, assuming you get calls at all, because it doesn't provide VoLTE support). I'm making it actually daily-drivable.
Many users are saying that I'm doing Google's job there, and even some Googlers said so. But of course, it's not in Google's nor the OEM's best interests to do that, which is way this job needs to be done by other people.
Also, I sent dozens of patches to AOSP, with very very small success rate. (While my contributions to Linux were pretty smooth)
But yes, I'm entitled to Google's work.