On Thursday 19 August 2010, Jim Ancona wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Christoph Pulster <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please note Android is a Google(TM) product. TM stands for total > > monopol. Or terrible monster. Google is evil. Android is no free OS. > > By what definition of "free" is Android not a free OS?
That depends on your definition of "Android". Most people think of Android as what you get on an Android handset, and that includes non-free (binary-only non-redistributable) drivers and core applications like the Marketplace. People making modified firmware images have been prevented from including these in their images by Google, so they have to work around by backing up the original binaries before flashing, then restoring them. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
