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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by flyinglizard on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:33PM (#20314616)
That doesn't make sense to me at all - you can have a closed source system running on top of Linux, today.
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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by ghostpepper on Saturday June 29, 2019 @05:37PM (#20314943)
Isn't that exactly what Android is?

edit: misread your comment

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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by codewiz on Sunday June 30, 2019 @07:02AM (#20317601)
No, Android (or rather, AOSP), is fully open source.

Most device makers fork AOSP and distribute binaries containing their modifications. These always come with source code for the GPL portions, and occasionally also the portions licensed under permissive licenses such as Apache and BSD.

For instance, OnePlus and Sony publish these Android sources: https://github.com/OnePlusOSS https://github.com/sonyxperiadev?tab=repositories

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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by seba_dos1 on Sunday June 30, 2019 @03:52PM (#20320123)
> Most device makers fork AOSP and distribute binaries

That's what Google does as well and it's called "Android".

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