DRM and a truly open platform cannot co-exist. It is impossible. When you control a point in the stack, you control everything below it. A good example of this

DRM and a truly open platform cannot co-exist. It is impossible. When you control a point in the stack, you control everything below it. A good example of this is VMware. My comment was a bit snarky, the but the point remains. I can't get my hands on the latest sources so I can add a fix to prevent applications from detecting rooted devices (a cat and mouse game for sure, but beside the point). My money would also be on Google shitting a very large brick and trying to find a subtile way to prevent my patch from working.