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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by throwaway2048 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @03:52PM (#6175168)
If Google was "doing everything in their power to keep Android and the Nexus brand as open as possible", they would have gave a shit about qualcomm's ridiculous conditions on source and redistribution before release.

Clearly they did not.

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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by _delirium on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @07:53PM (#6176474)
Especially considering that they managed it with the old Nexus 7. This is clearly not impossible, though I can buy that there are difficulties and tradeoffs.
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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by andrewpi on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @09:17PM (#6176812)
The old Nexus 7 wasn't Qualcomm.
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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by _delirium on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @09:24PM (#6176832)
Yes, but nobody was forcing them to choose Qualcomm, if it didn't meet their requirements.
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