I guess these guys have your same concern, and are trying to do something
about it:
http://replicant.us/about/

Android is Mostly free software, but the non-free parts are critical for
most practical purposes.
BTW, have you noticed how few open source high quality apps there are for
android, despite it's open source SDK?!

Philip


On 4 October 2011 15:17, Gregory Smirnov <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Oracle in documents posted Thursday claimed that its real issue in
> its dispute over copyrights and patents in Android wasn't its damage
> requests but to stop Android itself."
>
>
> http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/09/22/oracle.focues.on.past.damages.in.android.dispute/
>
> This is just a side attack of Apple against Google, imho. Apple
> directly fights on device market (with Samsung and Motorola Mobility),
> and now rules Oracle to hit on software market...
>
> and my biggest WOW is what is in the name of Java and Android is Open
> Source then... May you obtain the source and modify it to suit your
> needs? Apparently NO. What do you think?
>
> --
>   Gregory Smirnov
>   Software Engineer
>   2X Software - http://www.2x.com
>   Developers of virtual computing software
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