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Cake day: September 14th, 2025

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  • Is there an article or a video that ELI5s this in context?

    Because what the court said was:

    A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits or to the nondistribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes.

    And I am not even remotely fluent in legalese.








  • Does this mean sideloading is going away on Android? Absolutely not. Sideloading is fundamental to Android and it is not going away.

    This statement is untrue. The developer verification decree effectively ends the ability for individuals to choose what software they run on the devices they own.

    Wikipedia’s summary definition is:

    the transfer of apps from web sources that are not vendor-approved

    By this definition, Google’s statement that “sideloading is not going away” is simply false. The vendor — Google, in the case of Android certified devices — will, in point of fact, be approving the source. The supplicant app developer must register with Google, pay a fee, provide government identification, agree to non-negotiable (and ever-changing) terms and conditions, enumerate all their current and future application identifiers, upload evidence of their private signing key, and then hope and wait for Google’s approval.

    I’m glad to see this bullshit called out.