[aomobile]

Feels safer though to pay than to get something for free.

[rrix2]

But as this linked study points out: that's "just a feeling"...

[teddyh]

I prefer free friends to those that charge me money to be my friend.

[imwillofficial]

Companies that act like friends don’t last long. Business and pleasure and all that

[teddyh]

I was not saying that software is my friend, I was making an example of how some things are worse if they are paid for.

[chmsky00]

Android phones are free like speech, not free like beer.

[teddyh]

We were not discussing the actual phones, nor even Android itself, but the application software running on phones.

[jiminymcmoogley]

more accurately AOSP phones, since Google Location Services is far from free as in freedom

[mattl]

Does any Android phone run a freely licensed image?