[devcpp]

You can't blame capitalism for that. In a free market, consumers can just stop buying Qualcomm products for a month, and I can guarantee you that a choking Qualcomm would release all they have as FOSS as fast as they could.

But most of the population is uneducated in that regard. Blame the lack of enthusiasm for FOSS.

[nileshtrivedi]

FOSS? The source code isn't the issue here. Qualcomm isn't allowing Google to distribute their proprietary binaries.

[general_failure]

It's obvious what the OP was trying to say. He is saying people don't care about rooting, source code, binary code and hacking in general.

[devcpp]

I was saying that with enough pressure, they wouldn't just allow redistribution or even publish the source code, they would even release it under the GPL and kiss the buyers' feet if asked to.