• llii@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    But this doesn’t have anything to do with alphabet? They just open sourced the code.

    • Tire@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      Fitbit bought Pebble then Google bought Fitbit.

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        2 days ago

        PebbleOS was open sourced and now the original founder who hasn’t worked for alphabet for ages wants to build a new device using the now open sourced OS. No way Google can drop support and they have essentially given the code away because they aren’t using it anymore.

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        2 days ago

        Yes, and this has nothing to do with Fitbit or Google (beyond Google open-sourcing the old Pebble code).

        This is not a Google product.

      • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Yes, but reading the page tells you they’ve gotten google to open-source PebbleOS and highly suggests they’re either going to maintain the open source version, or otherwise fork the code.