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		rpxio on Oct 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech giants are hijacking the internet > Google is spending many millions of dollars per year developing and maintaining free software like Chrome and Android. From AOSP docs: > Android is intentionally and explicitly an open source effort (as opposed to free software) https://source.android.com/docs/setup/about

Const-me on Oct 16, 2023 [–]

I meant “free as in beer”.

One of the reasons Android was a success while Windows Phone failed, Microsoft charged something like $30 per device for the OS license.

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