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by bryan_w 301 days ago
Why not you? The beauty of open source is that you don't need to wait to make something happen if you really want it to happen.
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A phone OS is not a hobby project. Just because something is open source doesn't mean there are no development costs.
yeah that's what i'm saying. but obviously the problem is funding.

so do we have enough engineers who care about maintaining useful tools that aren't handicapped or compromised to be able to support this endeavor? i think we do. there have to be many good eggs within these companies who die a little inside each time something like this goes through.