[greenhouse_gas]

Are you sure? While its open source, your phone won't be (since the OS is MIT licensed, your OEM won't have to give you anything). Can you build a custom ROM without kernel sources?

[drb91]

This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the software, though. You can easily lock down linux for a given phone if that’s your goal (at face value anyway).

[e12e]

Well, this is the reason the gpl v3 came about - to ensure the four freedoms even when faced with "trusted computing".

[thelastidiot]

I appreciate what you are saying. So many people assume that open source gives them the keys of the castle, while later they realize that a simple broadcom closed source driver puts the whole openess in the trash.

[lambda]

I've been happily buying Nexus and Pixel phones for as long as they've existed, on which you can easily unlock the bootloader and build your own ROM if you want. I don't see why Google would stop doing that just because they've released a new OS.

If you're concerned about installing your own software on your own hardware, why not buy it from a manufacturer that protects your freedom to be able to do so?

[pjmlp]

Well for starters they have been cleaning up Android from GPL related licenses.

Android now compiles with clang, including their own modified Linux kernel, and gcc is no longer supported on the NDK.

[solarkraft]

I (not having looked at the architecture yet) have a suspicion that Fuchsia will run on a hardware-independent layer, like Treble which they're pushing right now.