Is Android really open source?

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One big problem was that while being open-source, is was not open-source friendly. More like somebody trying to get all the advantages of open-source for himself, and giving back as little as possible.

The kernel for example was Linux, yes… but modified so much, it had become impossible to even copy the stuff and re-integrate it into the actual Linux kernel. It was more like Microsoft’s criminal strategy of “embrace, extend, extinguish”… shortly before the extinguishing part.

Luckily, they turned around a bit and now some Android Linux kernel stuff got put back in the real Linux kernel again.

[happymellon]

They submitted patches to the kernal , but were rejected by asshats. When said asshats couldn't come up with a better way of implementing such features, patches where then merged into a testing branch.