Re: OT: Phone Warz -Google and Android Lock Antennae

2009-10-01 Thread blake gonterman
After the initial shock wore off and the devs started looking around, a few alternatives have emerged... One I've seen was to run a script that saved the required closed-source apps to a file on the SDcard and then re-apply it after flashing a rom with those bits missing... seems to me that's a

Re: OT: Phone Warz -Google and Android Lock Antennae

2009-09-30 Thread Lisa Kachold
How about Moblin? http://moblin.org/documentation/test-drive-moblin On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Matt Nesteruk matt.neste...@gmail.comwrote: This article blows chunks. Here are some of my favourite moments; The reaction from the Android user and developer community has been significant

OT: Phone Warz -Google and Android Lock Antennae

2009-09-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
Marketing cleverly disguised as legal FOSS copywrongs: http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7544/1.html Google Cease and Desists Android! -- (623)239-3392 (503)754-4452 www.obnosis.com http://www.obnosis.com/bt4.html http://www.obnosis.com/motivatebytruth/gnu-people.jpg

Re: OT: Phone Warz -Google and Android Lock Antennae

2009-09-29 Thread AZ RUNE
I went and read the article in full and I say that my views runs with the writer of the article. It really doesn't sound like the MOD'er, Cyanogenā€¯ tried to do anything deliberately to redistribute the non-open source applications Google includes on the G1 (mine is white, so I was intrigued by