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> Google is spending many millions of dollars per year developing and maintaining free software like Chrome and Android. From AOSP docs: > Android is intentio
by rpxio 3y ago
> 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 https://source.android.com/docs/setup/about
- Const-me 3y agoI 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.