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Evil_Shrubbery
thelemmy.club

It's open source if the company pledges to release the full code* after 99 years.

*in parts redacted to protect the innocent variables
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NaibofTabr
infosec.pub

the company will keep publishing security patches each month on a dedicated security-only branch for relevant OS releases just as it does today

Ok, so this is mostly going to affect new feature releases. It might not be a bad thing really, as it will be easier for downstream projects to keep up with a 6-month release cycle.

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boredsquirrel (he)reply
slrpnk.net

So GrapheneOS and any other OS that cares a bit about security need to ship proprietary updates.

And if this is everything of 6 months, this is pretty insane

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ramble81reply
lemmy.zip

Security updates are still monthly. It’s only the feature updates. Are you really that enthralled with ensuring you have the latest feature updates every 6 months?

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boredsquirrel (he)reply
slrpnk.net

So security updates are open source? Not like security preview releases that are under embargo?

Well that makes it less problematic. Android apps are independent from the core OS and half of the people is running old versions, so the ecosystem doesnt really depend on the latest and greatest.

Still shit, but less bad.

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