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Linus Torvalds is not gate keeping official browser, search engine, maps and even package manager for linux. Also I don’t think he is making billions by allowing people to fork and yet not change kernel


I think a more accurate analogy would be that Linus is not preventing OEMs from selling computers with other operating systems cougooglegh, or coercing or forcing them into preventing users from switching to other operating systems ahmicrosoftm, or abusing their dominance in other markets to gain an absurd and unfair advantage in unrelated markets cougooglegh.

Heavens me, my cough is acting up. I wonder why. I'm glad other countries stepped up and are starting to regulate these companies since the US is obviously refusing to do so.

In all ser


Isn’t Android open source?




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