From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <72c237151fdc2c4fbccb4067b79c0e84@9netics.com> References: <72c237151fdc2c4fbccb4067b79c0e84@9netics.com> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:05:41 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df10902161105j7115c0abucb14cecc7e118fb3@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Android / G1 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a1c23098-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote: > do mobile carriers allow (in a legal sense) unblessed device/OS on > their networks? not really. that's why you can get linux source for your moto phone but you can't build a working kernel, much less install it (that's what they told me anyway). That's what the firmware is I assume -- the firewall. That's good, since on some of the "open source" phones it's not firmware, it's a binary driver. ron