Why FP3 comes with an OS which is not privacy oriented?

[AnotherElk]

@JulienGarrigue

So it is technically not obvious to understand why Fairphone didn’t choose a FairOS

Fairphone 3 Source Code

This has been discussed in this forum at length. A majority (a large one) of users still want the Google stuff. You don’t sell Android phones in numbers without an Android with all the Google stuff. You can get impact investors all you want … you don’t sell, so you don’t make your statement, so you’re finished. And LineageOS … could end tomorrow (slight exaggeration). It is a voluntary community effort. And there’s no chain of responsibility if something in LineageOS doesn’t work. Something…