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The success of Android and Chromebooks is because of the investments of a for-profit multi-billion company.



I think it was originally VC-funded company whose code was copyleft. Google acquired them. It’s probably still a huge, open-source ecosystem because of the copyleft license.


That's no different from the success of Windows or iOS or Playstation or what have you.




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