All I ever wanted was pure linux on a phone, so I could do what I wanted to with it, including securing it. Instead what we got was a half open half proprietary

All I ever wanted was pure linux on a phone, so I could do what I wanted to with it, including securing it. Instead what we got was a half open half proprietary peice of crap that even google bent over backwards to let the carriers fuck up with their custom ROMs on top of stock droid. What we need is an open source phone, metal to screen, so to speak. Oh wait, the cell radio firmwares are all proprietary too? I blame carriers and their bullshit first, google for not allowing more granular ACL's natively, and consumers for accepting android because they were so ready for anything different.