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Based on history, it may be a pirate reverse-engineered Android OS.

• deleted 7y ago
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• blck 7y ago
  I don't think you have to reverse engineer an open source operating system...
  • MikusR 7y ago
    At this point Android is as open source as Windows.
    • NikolaeVarius 7y ago
      Please point me at anything that resembles source code that I can compile to produce a bootable variant of Windows.
      • colejohnson66 7y ago
        I think the GP was trying to say: just as Windows isn’t OSS, neither is Android anymore because of all the proprietary blobs and the Play Store
      • MikusR 7y ago
        Please point me at anything that resembles source code that I can compile to produce Play services.
        • NikolaeVarius 7y ago
          I was not aware Play Services was required to run Android. I have test phones that run Android without Play Services just fine. How does that make Androids open source status anywhere near Windows?
      • fulafel 7y ago
        It might be against site rules.
• simion314 7y ago
  What history? Did china reversed engineered Windows? Isn't also Android notorious for re-implementing Java? So it would be hypocritical for Google to claim that you can't reverse engineer the Google Play APIs
  • luizfzs 7y ago
    They did that with Cisco routers' OS. Huawei's switches' OS even had Cisco's logo on it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000
    • uhhhhhhh 7y ago
      Also Sina -> Twitter. Pretty sure the sina API still returns "Retweeted" count last I checked.