On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:20 -0500, Dan Trevino wrote: > Yahoo and Bing search are available in the Android market. Verizon > includes Bing as the default on some of their phones.
Yes, but they are applications, not integrated into the phone the way the Google stuff is ;) > And there are dozens of custom firmwares based on Googles Android > code, so the "CentOS" of Android does exist, many times over. Yes and projects going to replace the Google stuff with FOSS versions. But its not been an easy past, Google fought stuff like Cynagenmod for a bit, before giving in and accepting the inevitable. I know there are others, and I could download and compile the source myself and start to strip things out etc. My point is that Google went out of their way to integrate and embed their stuff. So you have to go through considerable efforts to have an Android free of Google if thats possible. While CentOS goes through effort to remove RH branding, etc. The effort required for CentOS is nothing compared to what you have to do in Android to attempt to circumvent all Google stuff. RedHat would never do things that Google has, they have a better understanding of FOSS. RedHat knows anyone would just reverse engineer, or port. Something Google had to find out the hard way ;) Not sure what Googles plans are for if they lose control of the Android platform. Surely no one vendor has full control of Linux. Android being FOSS could end up going the same route, and I really hope it does. I am not anti-Google, just do not like having things forced upon me with no choice. Like I would love to ditch Googles browser which sucks for Opera. But trying to remove their browser and replacing that with Opera. I am sure others have done it, but not a trivial task. Surely not just installing opera and changing a default or two. Google really wants you to use their stuff, for good reason. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
