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I like the fact that it's open source, mostly excluding some third-party binary blobs, but on most phones I can install custom ROMs and kernels, and even fiddle

by farmdve 11y ago

I like the fact that it's open source, mostly excluding some third-party binary blobs, but on most phones I can install custom ROMs and kernels, and even fiddle with these binary blobs.

josteink 11y ago
People who bought into Apple's closed garden (with a capitol c) need to rationalise their investment. Part of that rationalisation is at will dismissing the value of open technology, despite 99% of the internet and 90% of the Apple ecosystem lives atop of it. Considering how lots of full on FOSS Linux users were lured to the Apple platform for its (at the time) impressive desktop, this has probably caused one of the biggest damages to open source software we have seen in recent time.
- sjwright 11y ago
  Android is marching ever further away from open source with every release. They're boiling the frog and you didn't notice.
  - josteink 11y ago
    Good point. Too bad it remains the most viable open-source mobile OS around.