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Android is certainly more open than Windows Mobile. Do you have have access to source code for Windows? Is Windows source code licensed under a copyleft licen
by nuclear_eclipse 17y ago
Android is certainly more open than Windows Mobile. Do you have have access to source code for Windows? Is Windows source code licensed under a copyleft license, allowing anyone the freedom to modify and redistribute Windows as they please?
In this case, really the only thing "preventing" Android from being truly open and free/libre is the mobile carriers and their handset manufacturers. It's just a matter of an open operating system being distributed on closed devices, a la TiVo. The fact that I can build and install Android on my Openmoko FreeRunner, but not on my T-Mobile G1, proves that fact.