Android is shaped by Google solely for Google's own monetary gain, just as Windows is by Microsoft. A Google branded dog collar around our necks doesn't seem much better than a Microsoft branded one.
Microsoft of course is also a major player in Linux (via Azure). As is Amazon. Their companies depend on it.
It's no longer a bazzar where random university lecturers write and run entire subsystems between classes, but it is at least multiple companies contributing.
