[gcb0]

> If you care about running only open source software, that's going to be very hard to do in the Android/Google-Play ecosystem.

yet, the main advertisement google trhows for android is "open source" "community driven" yadda yadda

[azernik]

Main advertisement? I just went to android.com and developer.android.com; android.com advertises "Google built in" and lots of platforms, with a very small link to AOSP at the bottom of the page; developer.android.com has an AOSP link buried in its menus.

[gcb0]

oh sorry. advertised.

we have already been baited and switched. but marketing takes a long time to dissipate...

here, i just clicked 2010 and clicked a random day for android.com

http://web.archive.org/web/20100112200506/http://www.android...

the 1st block is about the nexus one (market as open, but not on this page) and look! the second item on the page reads "Access to the entire platform source and information on how to contribute."

guess they forgot an asterix there saying that the "entire platform" means some of the platform.

[gress]

It's been years since Google switched away from that claim.