Thats funny, do you have a link for where they published these "fundamental tenets"?
Cuz.. its funny.. out of the dozens (hundreds?) of different android devices released since the G1, afiak they only provided 2 that were rootable in any reasonable way (nexus phones) That doesn't sound like a fundamental tenet at all to me... (Also, this probably belongs on android-discuss..) On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Sean McGuffee <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > I just got an Android phone for the first time today. I noticed right > away that there is no option in the settings to enable root access. > Come on developers! It's one thing to make an option to turn off root > access, but it's another to remove the option to turn it back on. I > propose that it become a FUNDAMENTAL TENET of the the Android > operating system that if MUST ALWAYS ALLOW ANY USER TO ENABLE ROOT > ACCESS IN SETTINGS. How can it be that it has come to this? Why are > people and companies so afraid of letting people use their operating > systems. If you are one of the people associated with the concept of > creating an operating system configured without root access, you > should be ashamed of yourself. People like me shouldn't have to go and > re-configure or re-write an operating system to get ONE option to be > root. Seriously, this shouldn't be an issue and I am dead serious > about the entire community uniting on this tenet of always allowing > root access. No adult should ever be able to purchase a android phone > and not automatically be given a way to get access to root and set the > password to root. Now, I can imagine a parent wanting to use that > setting to disable that option, but that should be at the discretion > of the owner of the phone. Absolutely no company or software developer > should ever get the opportunity to restrict root access. As a > mechanism of enforcing this tenet, I propose that all future > distributed releases should be required to meet the requirement that > root access be available in settings. If a release is found to > restrict this or even offer a setting as is currently the case that > allows for the build of a phone without root access should be flagged > and removed from the android archives. EVERYONE WHO AGREES PLEASE > REPLY EXPRESSING YOUR OVERWHELMING SUPPORT!!! --No matter if you are > in the developer community or in the phone owner community or even > simply anyone who understands that this could be considered a human > rights issue. > Sincerely, > Sean McGuffee > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "android-platform" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
