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bduerst on Jan 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle...

I don't think anyone expects the Android OS to be a collection of entirely open source device drivers.

Those proprietary drivers are specific to the myriad of hardware that the OEMs are running the OS on. You can still run Android on any hardware you have the drivers for, or emulate it in a virtual machine.

rapnie on Jan 7, 2020 [–]

I agree. I was mostly refering to the last part of the quote where it mentions 'accessing Google services'.

_0ffh on Jan 7, 2020 | [–]

Well, naturally, this is the cash cow part of Android. Google wouldn't want to make it easy to write an open replacement.

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