LWN: Comments on "Replacing Google with microG"

Replacing Google with microG

hkario — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:49:48 +0000

If google was a non-profit with the goal of serving the public at large, it indeed would be bad to work on any projects that undermine google.

Unfortunately, they are not only a for profit, they long since have shown that they don't care about the public, as long as the AdWords dollars roll in, the public can fsck itself.

Replacing Google with microG

ddevault — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:48:20 +0000

If us free software enthusiasts want our mission taken seriously, crap like this has got to stop.

Replacing Google with microG

spittiepie — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:22:41 +0000

This might be a little less known, but you don't need the whole Play Services suite for gesture typing, just a blob.
Grab the correct "libjni_latinimegoogle.so" from https://github.com/opengapps/arm/tree/master/lib and push it under /system/lib/. Works like a charm, and no PS needed.

Replacing Google with microG

aryonoco — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 04:11:45 +0000

"Any project removing the power that Google Play Services holds over device-makers is surely valuable"

Could not disagree more with this.

The one thing keeping Android from total incompatible fragmentation is this power that Google holds. The last thing that any user or developer would want would be the proliferation of incompatible Android implementations.

Replacing Google with microG

flussence — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:03:32 +0000

The one thing I wish was implemented here (and one thing I'm utterly baffled by the need to have Play Services installed to use in the first place) is gesture typing on the stock AOSP keyboard. All the UI for it is present, but the part where hesitating over a letter types it seems to be in that proprietary blob.

Replacing Google with microG

pabs — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 06:52:48 +0000

"free-as-in-freedom" and "GitHub" in the same sentence, interesting.

http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html