All Google did was tell Acer that developing with a hacked-up, forked version of Android would mean they'd lose their preferred partner status. Not that they co

All Google did was tell Acer that developing with a hacked-up, forked version of Android would mean they'd lose their preferred partner status. Not that they couldn't do it. It's OSS - go to town. Look at it this way: if being an Android hardware partner means you get early access to cool new features and source code before it's released (it does), but the terms of that say you won't use this on a forked version of the OS (like Amazon, for example) - don't be surprised when Google reminds you of this requirement.