[dvfjsdhgfv]

Android is the very opposition of Free Software. Google took the Linux Kernel, modified it, added some proprietary bits, and they're doing what they can to replace open components with their own proprietary versions, making a really open version of Android hardly usable and extremely difficult to build.

Charging manufacturers for using the operating system you built is a healthy business practice. "Giving it away" and building in dozens of tracking mechanisms is hardly ethical.

[scarface74]

This has been going on for years.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on...