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Re:The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone by superuser2 on Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:04PM (#6735563)
Open source encompasses permission to modify and redistribute. Disclosed source != open source, which is what was advocated upthread.

Parent claimed that modifying the source wouldn't hurt anything since your phone can't transmit in ways you're not licensed to, but this is incorrect.

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Re:The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone by emhs on Friday November 15, 2013 @11:55AM (#6740470)
Open source != free (libre) baseband hardware that you can directly modify the software on. Being able to compile and modify is fine and has no impact on the network if you're not able to run it on the primary network.
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