While tangential to the main point, it's weird to read about the failure of the open source phone knowing about the Android Open Source Project. What's missing

While tangential to the main point, it's weird to read about the failure of the open source phone knowing about the Android Open Source Project. What's missing from AOSP is Google Play Services aka proprietary web services. Open source has been a huge hit on the client, it's the firewalled server that has slowed the spread of free software.