With google following apple’s walled garden, and limiting third party app installations, can someone else big (nonprofit like GNU or Linux foundation) fork and maintain android? Reason for choosing someone big is for mass adoption and that google is slowly boiling the pot to see what enshittification it could get away with
What OS do they maintain? Linux is not an OS, but a kernel that powers many different OS’s, even Android.
I mean they fund kernel development which in turn indirectly funds OS . Like, what would the OS run without a kernel