triple negative...

Posted Jan 29, 2026 9:43 UTC (Thu) by leromarinvit (subscriber, #56850)
In reply to: triple negative... by rsidd
Parent article: Open source for phones: postmarketOS

I understand it to mean the latter: you can get code into AOSP via contribution processes not totally unlike any other open source project, unless it's something that would harm Google's business interests. E.g., your ad blocker will never be merged, no matter what you do.

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triple negative...

Posted Jan 29, 2026 11:11 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

One example would be MIPS (architecture) support for Android: it was added by some Chinese guys — and then dropped, when MIPS (company) switched to RISC-V… Google had no desire to support MIPS ever, but it wasn't hurting them thus it was allowed to land (and was only removed when the guys who developed it lost interest).

That's no longer possible, but the change have happened not when they decided to have two releases per year, but when AOSP Gerrit was frozen.