Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental

Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by Nursie on Friday December 13, 2013 @01:28PM (#6902029)

I wish you the best of luck in convincing MS to make it easier to install linux on their phones, and convincing embedded system builders to spend extra on hardware.

Either way, I was talking about what we have now, and even if we have device tree now it doesn't solve this problem without other pieces to the puzzle. And that's without even getting on to the mess of closed source graphics drivers that exist in the arm world.

Please don't think I'm trying to say we can't have a situation like the OP wants, I'm just trying to explain why we don't.

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Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by nitrogen on Friday December 13, 2013 @02:27PM (#6902361)

I thought Linaro was a consortium to do exactly that, minus the Microsoft part. As you say this doesn't help us now, but hopefully some day there will be a widespread ARM equivalent of the BIOS and UEFI. It will probably start (or has started?) with ARM servers.

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Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by Nursie on Friday December 13, 2013 @02:37PM (#6902438)

Cool.

All the more reason for me to get up to speed with Linaro then, thanks for the heads up :)

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