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2015-04-23 , 17:03
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#26
Originally Posted by herpderp View Post
That's not the same thing. For one, IE was never open source. Anybody can take Android's source and fork it, they just can't release devices with it and label it as official android (they won't get play services for it, for example).
It is the same. It's Google trying to force their services onto device manufacturers by preventing the release of devices that come without those services. Those services are being bundled into Android in the same way that IE was bundled into Windoze. The fact that Android is open source is irrelevant to this. It would be like Linus Torvalds saying 'you can't release a Linux device without my personal approval'.
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