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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker
I don't think Android is "open" at all, it's just "less closed" than the competition.
For example:
- Large parts of the Android userland are not open source.
- Pretty much all Android code is made by Google. There are no public discussions on anything, really.
- Almost all Android drivers are closed-source (they're usually not provided by Google but by the phone vendors).
- Most Android phones are "locked", you need all sorts of stupid tricks ("hacks") to do stuff with them (like, install a different OS/ROM, unlock more features, etc).
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The idea that *any* smartphone goes far enough to qualify as OSS is mostly flatulence. Agreed.
However; we need to hang onto what we've got. So .... relative to my previous posts in this thread, what WAS Oracle REALLY after?