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		bigbugbag on Oct 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Privacy I think you're confusing android and android open source project (AOSP) here. Android is AOSP + Gapps. Even the FLOSS nature of AOSP has been questioned for years, but as a manufacturer it's impossible to offer a phone with AOSP, to be able to use android you have to include the Gapps. Google has slowly been moving functional parts from AOSP to Gapps, the point being to limit the AOSP part and eventually get rid it of the open source part.

la_oveja on Oct 9, 2017 [–]

You don't need GApps to run Android. The only closed source blob you need is chipset and modem drivers.

And no: AOSP is Android. It's like saying that Linux is not Linux unless you bundle it with GNU-utils and wrapped by Canonical.

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