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Some former Android team members have also lamented the platform's direction. Jean-Baptiste Quéru, a founding Android engineer who led the Android Open Source Project, remarked that when he worked on Android, goals included keeping the app ecosystem "as open as the web" and letting users run their own builds, but "12 years later, this seems to have all died".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Holwerda |first=Thom |date=2025-09-29 |title=Google's Android developer registration requirement will kill F-Droid |url=https://www.osnews.com/story/143450/googles-android-developer-registration-requirement-will-kill-f-droid/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251009111928/https://www.osnews.com/story/143450/googles-android-developer-registration-requirement-will-kill-f-droid/ |archive-date=2025-10-09 |access-date=2025-10-29 |website=osnews}}</ref> | Some former Android team members have also lamented the platform's direction. Jean-Baptiste Quéru, a founding Android engineer who led the Android Open Source Project, remarked that when he worked on Android, goals included keeping the app ecosystem "as open as the web" and letting users run their own builds, but "12 years later, this seems to have all died".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Holwerda |first=Thom |date=2025-09-29 |title=Google's Android developer registration requirement will kill F-Droid |url=https://www.osnews.com/story/143450/googles-android-developer-registration-requirement-will-kill-f-droid/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251009111928/https://www.osnews.com/story/143450/googles-android-developer-registration-requirement-will-kill-f-droid/ |archive-date=2025-10-09 |access-date=2025-10-29 |website=osnews}}</ref> | ||
A website titled https://keepandroidopen.org/ was created to push back against Google's decision. It was enforced by F-Droid in a blog post as a way for users to take action. | |||
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