You can build a version of Android, but not the version that is installed on the device you buy in the store.
There are dozens of forks of Android so I don’t know how you can NOT call it OSS.
Because even those forks ship closed source binary blobs. You simply cannot build an Android phone with 100% open source. The phones you can actually buy in the store? A huge part of those is closed source.
I don’t know how to rebuild shit but certainly plenty of people can and have.
There are dozens of forks of Android so I don’t know how you can NOT call it OSS.
You can build a version of Android, but not the version that is installed on the device you buy in the store.
Because even those forks ship closed source binary blobs. You simply cannot build an Android phone with 100% open source. The phones you can actually buy in the store? A huge part of those is closed source.
No one is talking about off the shelf OS’s.
Yes we are. No one runs custom ROMs other than a very tiny number of hardcode nerds.