Are you talking about Chromium or Chromium OS? They are very different things. Both of them have working OSS forks, or just work out of the box. Chromium (Brow

Are you talking about Chromium or Chromium OS? They are very different things. Both of them have working OSS forks, or just work out of the box. Chromium (Browser) - Just chromium. Works without changes (except for Widewine EME). WebRTC is an open standard, and Google primarily uses open codecs like VP9 and Opus. Can you point to something you think says about restrictions? Chromium OS - Neverware sells a fork ('support' technically) to schools. You can download it for free. Android - Dial a phone number? Are you talking about the modem firmware? That's the phone manufacturer's fault, not AOSP's. There are obviously differences between closed source versions and what you get by immediately compiling. This is true when you have a real permissive license (non-copyleft) like Apache or BSD. You can't expect a company to release little thing, especially when that involves divulging info about other products they don't want to.