LWN: Comments on "Replacing Google with microG" https://lwn.net/Articles/681758/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Replacing Google with microG". en-us Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:41:04 +0000 Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:41:04 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net Replacing Google with microG https://lwn.net/Articles/711268/ https://lwn.net/Articles/711268/ hkario <div class="FormattedComment"> 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.<br> <p> 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.<br> </div> Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:49:48 +0000 Replacing Google with microG https://lwn.net/Articles/693951/ https://lwn.net/Articles/693951/ ddevault <div class="FormattedComment"> If us free software enthusiasts want our mission taken seriously, crap like this has got to stop.<br> </div> Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:48:20 +0000 Replacing Google with microG https://lwn.net/Articles/683234/ https://lwn.net/Articles/683234/ spittiepie <div class="FormattedComment"> This might be a little less known, but you don't need the whole Play Services suite for gesture typing, just a blob.<br> Grab the correct "libjni_latinimegoogle.so" from <a href="https://github.com/opengapps/arm/tree/master/lib">https://github.com/opengapps/arm/tree/master/lib</a> and push it under /system/lib/. Works like a charm, and no PS needed.<br> </div> Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:22:41 +0000 Replacing Google with microG https://lwn.net/Articles/683068/ https://lwn.net/Articles/683068/ aryonoco <div class="FormattedComment"> "Any project removing the power that Google Play Services holds over device-makers is surely valuable"<br> <p> Could not disagree more with this. <br> <p> 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. <br> </div> Fri, 08 Apr 2016 04:11:45 +0000 Replacing Google with microG https://lwn.net/Articles/681994/ https://lwn.net/Articles/681994/ flussence <div class="FormattedComment"> 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.<br> </div> Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:03:32 +0000 Replacing Google with microG https://lwn.net/Articles/681904/ https://lwn.net/Articles/681904/ pabs <div class="FormattedComment"> "free-as-in-freedom" and "GitHub" in the same sentence, interesting.<br> <p> <a href="http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html">http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html</a><br> </div> Thu, 31 Mar 2016 06:52:48 +0000