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[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Sure, they all use open source to varying degrees.

But most of Android is actually contributed by engineers who are being paid by Google.

We could argue that $300K in San Francisco is still exploitation, but there are worse forms of exploitation in any case.