> > 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 >>
I think this video explains the reason why root should be available to everyman and his puppy dog. http://youtu.be/VJACFMc-Rb4 -- 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.
