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Comment Re:is this new? (Score 2) 92

I was wondering the same thing. For as long as I've been on Slashdot, at least, I've read sporadic stories about one large chunk of Germany or another leaving Microsoft and adopting an open-source alternative. At this point I wouldn't have thought there was a German worker using a Microsoft product... but apparently there's still at least one group over there beholden to Redmond.

Comment Re:Sucks for them (Score 1) 46

They are/were active with Sailfish (via libhybris) too. Trouble is, I haven't seen a sony phone for a decade since they no longer have a sales or retail presence in my country/region, so I'd be relying on grey imports.

HMD would be my hope. They've committed to supporting hardware on certain models through ifixit. Committing to software would tie in.

Comment Good faith (Score 1) 46

Hey Google, since we know no one from your company reads this...

What does this mean for "mainline"? You had made various mission statements that you wanted to work directly with the Linux kernel team in upstreaming your changes and branching the Android tree off LTS releases.

So within a reasonable timeframe, maybe one or two LTS releases after launch, one should expect to build a Pixel device directly off Android sources through the source code you've already sent to Linus.

As for 'binary blobs', please work with the 'linux-libre' and Replicant teams to openly document and/or reverse engineer whatever secret gunk you and partners are hiding in your firmwares. Tensor is your own chip, for example.

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