G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS 406
RandyDownes writes "And you thought the Droid X's kill switch was bad. HTC and T-Mobile's new G2 can detect when it's been rooted and responds by reinstalling the factory OS. This seems like a violation of the Apache license Android is licensed under and is especially ironic given Eric Schmidt's recent statement about not requiring carriers to give consumers the option to install Google's own version of the OS. Schmidt called it a violation of the principles of open source."
Update: 10/06 17:47 GMT by S : As readers have noted, the G2 is not from Motorola. Here's a better source, and here's the XDA Developers thread discussing the issue.
Driod does... (Score:2, Funny)
Droid does.... screw you over if you want to customize it.
Re:Wut? (Score:5, Funny)
please explain to me how it is an actual violation of that license
Section 3, paragraph 11, about a third of the way down, "Don't be evil."
Re:Glad I don't have a smartphone (Score:3, Funny)
Life's better when you ignore that whole segment of the marketplace (smartphones, I mean, not women)
There's a name for women you get from the marketplace...
Re:Wut? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, so you want people to read the license agreement, Really? Next thing we know, you'll want them to RTFA. You must be new here (yes, I said it!)
Re:Wut? (Score:5, Funny)
Submitter seems to have "Apache" confused with "GPLv3." It's a common mistake; Richard Stallman has been known to collect scalps.
Re:Glad I don't have a smartphone (Score:1, Funny)
LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE!
Re:It's not open source (Score:4, Funny)
#152037 +(3036)- [X]
<dm> I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.
<dm> For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me.
<dm> Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better.
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<dm> brings a tear to my eye...
<dm> So if you're starting out Linux, I advise you to use the same method as I did to get help. Start the sentence with "Linux is gay because it can't do XXX like Windows can". You will have PhDs running to tell you how to solve your problems.
<dm> this person must be a kindred spirit of mine
Re:I'm so sick of this... (Score:1, Funny)
with a (around) 450 € sticker price it was not cheep.
But it let you flip the bird at the other phone manufacturers ...