Motorola gnu/linux phones
mr
mrintegrity at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 14:25:47 CEST 2007
So, i won't be able to run my own version of linux and be able to use all
the features? Would that not violate the gplv3?
On 8/11/07, Jonathan Wilson <jfwfreo at tpgi.com.au> wrote:
>
> mr wrote:
> > On 8/11/07, mr <mrintegrity at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> No, I am not sure at all. But presumably certain parts of the hardware
> are
> >> locked out (anything that interfaces with the providers network)
> Perhaps
> >> that only exposes an API which the other software can interface with..
> On the motorola phones I know of, the sensitive parts (i.e. those that
> talk
> to the SIM card and the network etc) are run via a program on a seperate
> CPU to the main linux operating system.
>
>
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