hey guys i wanted to touch on something, to spread the publicity of it. i hope that you can find the time to read this and help spread the word, even though this doesnt directly effect you.
Custom kernels are the idol of many android phones, its what allows devs to overclock and undervolt phones, giving much needed battery life and an extra push in power. it also allows for things like cyanogenmod and newer versions of android to be ported to a phone that has been considered "end of life" devices. the prevail is lucky enough that your kernel source is complete and will compile, sadly enough though we have no way to flash/apply it. however the samsung indulge doesnt even get that much, no instead samsung published an incomplete source. when questioned about it they proceeded to apologize and post a new one. great right?
wrong. the new source they put up was a 1 for 1 identical match with just a name change. now i imagine some of your are wondering who gives a crap right? if that is your mentality about open source then i beg you, leave android. go to a closed source platform like iOS or windows phone 7.. see how much can be done with devices then. android was built with open source in mind, to be able to evolve, adapt and become something greater. i know many of you use windows, but even yall can look outside the window and see taht without the linux kernel the computing world would be a whole lot more depressing.
i implore you to read this thread, retweet my tweets. let us be heard not as prevail owners or indulge owners or whatever other phone you may have, but instead as brothers, as android lovers. for while this doesnt directly effect you.. the flaps of a butterfly can cause tornadoes.. if we let samsung go by without so much as a glance from this then they are no better then moto/htc for locking their bootloaders..
http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...amsung-violating-gpl-full-details-inside.html
Custom kernels are the idol of many android phones, its what allows devs to overclock and undervolt phones, giving much needed battery life and an extra push in power. it also allows for things like cyanogenmod and newer versions of android to be ported to a phone that has been considered "end of life" devices. the prevail is lucky enough that your kernel source is complete and will compile, sadly enough though we have no way to flash/apply it. however the samsung indulge doesnt even get that much, no instead samsung published an incomplete source. when questioned about it they proceeded to apologize and post a new one. great right?
wrong. the new source they put up was a 1 for 1 identical match with just a name change. now i imagine some of your are wondering who gives a crap right? if that is your mentality about open source then i beg you, leave android. go to a closed source platform like iOS or windows phone 7.. see how much can be done with devices then. android was built with open source in mind, to be able to evolve, adapt and become something greater. i know many of you use windows, but even yall can look outside the window and see taht without the linux kernel the computing world would be a whole lot more depressing.
i implore you to read this thread, retweet my tweets. let us be heard not as prevail owners or indulge owners or whatever other phone you may have, but instead as brothers, as android lovers. for while this doesnt directly effect you.. the flaps of a butterfly can cause tornadoes.. if we let samsung go by without so much as a glance from this then they are no better then moto/htc for locking their bootloaders..
http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...amsung-violating-gpl-full-details-inside.html