[ale] Future of linux (was: Skype)

[Charles Shapiro]

I have no great love for android cellphone manufacturers. But there is a
thriving subculture of 3rd party Android builds out there for many models.

-- CHS

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:48 AM, James Taylor <
James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:

> My understanding is that most of the proprietary stuff is related to
> device specific drivers.
> Generally, updates for particular AOSP device builds are updated as the
> sources are released.
> All of the Google stuff is proprietary, but that is not part of AOSP,
> though links are provided for various GAPPs packages, some customized for
> the related AOSP rom project.
>  -jt
>
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> James Taylor
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> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
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> >>> Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> 9/14/2015 11:20 AM >>>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:19:38AM -0400, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> > Android is indeed open source ( http://source.android.com/ ).  The
> software
> > which controls the radio in your smartphone is not, however.
>
> FWIW, pick any random android device out there, old or new, and with
> very few exceptions you will not be able to get it to boot up (much less =
> usefully operate) using what's provided by the Android Open Source
> Project.
>
> Nearly every android device relies on what amounts to a private,
> proprietary fork of the AOSP codebase.  Both low-level and application
> code alike.
>
>  - Solomon [bah humbug]
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> Solomon Peachy                         pizza at shaftnet dot org
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