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Except most of the drivers, the firmware, and some of the applications are not. I think most of developers would even be satisfied with a binary blob (ala nVidi
by yardie 16y ago
Except most of the drivers, the firmware, and some of the applications are not. I think most of developers would even be satisfied with a binary blob (ala nVidia or Broadcom) that would allow them to use the hardware, but not even that exists.
- davidw 16y agoI know that some of the drivers are not open source. 'Most'? Let's talk concretely: does anyone know which ones? Applications: sure, you don't get some of the Google stuff, but so what. You can run the system without that. Android is not 100% free. But as far as I know, it's closer than anything else out there, and thus a good starting point for those wishing to work in that direction. And the system itself is pretty open - it's easy to see how things work and interact.