There goes my hope for #KaiOS (a fork of FirefoxOS).
“Google Leads Series A Investment Round in KaiOS to Connect Next Billion Users”
https://www.kaiostech.com/google-leads-seriesa-investment-round-kaios-connect-next-billion-users/
@tinker Help me understand why this is bad?
@downey - If it’s *just* making apps for the KaiOS system, it’s fine.
If it’s Google helping KaiOS build tracking into the core operating system, it’s bad.
Even if KaiOS was going to do that to begin with, Google’s surveillance apparatus and contextualization is multiple orders of magnitude bigger than what KaiOS could have done on their own.
@tinker Agreed, and that would be bad, but I did not perceive that slipperuy slope from reading the announcement -- unless I missed something?
Google does do a lot of good non-surveillance-y support & funding of #OpenSource stuff through #GSoC and their open source programs office. https://opensource.google.com/
@downey - Here’s hoping!