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People bought Android instead of WebOS and killed the most open platform mobile has ever seen. Hell, you could boot a kernel over USB, and Palm gave you the too
by freehunter 11y ago
People bought Android instead of WebOS and killed the most open platform mobile has ever seen. Hell, you could boot a kernel over USB, and Palm gave you the tools and commands to do it. On their official website.
- copperx 11y agoIt's sad that what you're describing sounds scandalous today.
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- fpgeek 11y agoAs does Google. Or has "fastboot boot" stopped working on Nexus (and many other bootloader-unlocked) devices?
- sunnyps 11y agoGoogle does the same with its Nexus devices[1] in that you can build a completely open-source version of Android except for certain hardware-specific binary blobs. [1] https://source.android.com/source/running.html https://source.android.com/source/running.html
- odbol_ 11y agoSo... You can build the complete OS... Except for all the hard driver parts.
- sunnyps 11y agoThe hard driver parts are for things like LTE, GPS, GSM, wifi, camera, etc. which the device manufacturers haven't chosen to open-source. I don't see how it's relevant to Android itself, any other OS would have the same problems with that hardware.
- josteink 11y ago> Hell, you could boot a kernel over USB, and Palm gave you the tools and commands to do it So does Google. All Nexus devices allows you to do "fastboot boot kernel.img". Other devices with unlocked bootloaders supports/supported this too (like my old HTC One M7), using the same standard Android tools.