I don't trust Google. I couldn't use fuchsia on principle.
Ignoring the reasons why I don't trust Google, being able to trust your tools, especially your desktop, is the most important thing for me. I would love to have my emails delivered to a global document store so many smaller apps could take advantage of them, but only so long as I could guarantee there is no special 'google play services' app needing to run in the background doing who-knows-what with root.
Just out of curiosity, what smartphone and OS do you use, if I may ask? iOS and Windows Phone are closed source, which I'd argue it's worse than using Google services. Android seems pretty much unusable without Google integration. So...?
So we are forced to use a major manufacturer for our smartphones. Does that mean we can’t criticize them? They’re not on our side, they’re out to make a profit. I don’t trust them either, and I use a smartphone.
I do think it’s important that we create open hardware and open software. I’m realizing Richard Stallman was right all along.
I took my hat out of the desktop race a long long time ago. the only thing that has really affected me recently was Mate switching entirely to GTK3. my text editor now does all sorts of things the maintainer of the editor can't change, like smooth-scrolling when using the find dialog.
I really want to get behind this effort for an improved desktop, even if it means breaking everything. but I have to be able to trust each of the components.
Ignoring the reasons why I don't trust Google, being able to trust your tools, especially your desktop, is the most important thing for me. I would love to have my emails delivered to a global document store so many smaller apps could take advantage of them, but only so long as I could guarantee there is no special 'google play services' app needing to run in the background doing who-knows-what with root.