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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid
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this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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What stops those open source projects having that same rugpull? AOSP was open source and for a long time could be installed on one's phone indefinitely.
You could argue ownership, but if Audacity can be bought then so can nearly anything.