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30 years at Microsoft. I think he'll be fine. Us B and C tier company employees with low six figure salaries and 5 year vesting schedules will be going as long as someone continues to pay us.

The thing is, this whole debate is happening above the baseband. Linux phones (Librem 5, PinePhone) tried to solve this and went nowhere, you can open-source everything above the modem, but the GSM/LTE protocol stack is still a proprietary blob with DMA access to your main memory. It's basically a second computer in your phone that's directly addressable by carrier infrastructure, and nobody gets to audit it. Doesn't matter if you're running iOS, Android, or postmarketOS. Qualcomm/MediaTek own that layer and it's not changing anytime soon.