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.
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Go buy any Android phone from a major brand (Google, Samsung, etc) try to rebuild the OS as it’s installed from the factory from source. You can’t.
Even theAOSP based Android distros like LineageOS ship with closed source binary blobs for crucial parts of the OS.
Calling Android OSS is a marketing gimmick to trick nerds into choosing Android.
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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.
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Yes we are. No one runs custom ROMs other than a very tiny number of hardcode nerds.