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Originally Posted by david.hicks View Post
but in the end google have still got a lot of closed source stuff on there that makes the system worthwhile - for instance all the stuff that enables login to google services.
And there's the rub. It wasn't clear to many people how much the wool was over their eyes about the "linux phone OS" called Android. I first realized it when the cease and desist was sent to that guy (cyanogen?) who was doing mods. It wasn't the C&D, but the realization that without the google specific bits android is completely worthless as a phone OS, and that Google is absolutely not opening up that part of it, that soured me on going Android. This is just the other shoe dropping on the google Android-is-linux propaganda.
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