Re: [gentoo-user] Quoting style on HTC Dream

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 13 November 2009 10:15:43 Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 01:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > My new! improved! shiny! Android phone has a Gmail app. It's nice to use
> > but it's quoting style is horrible and looks thusly:
>
> Isn't Android "supposed" to be Open Source?

The kernel is Linux so it's OSS and so are most of the APIs. License is GPL. 
The user-space apps are not necessarily GPL though (just like on the desktop) 
and I haven't seen the code for the GMail app


> What's to stop you from
> fixing the code yourself and recompiling,

Apart from "I really can't be bothered so I'll download something else" 
nothing stops me :-)

> or does that somehow
> "invalidate" your phone?

It's not an iPhone and Apple's psychosis doesn't enter the picture, I can 
install any user-space app I feel like. The warranty is already invalid 
though, for a different reason - I flashed it with an OS and firmware that's 
far superior to the one my carrier thinks I should have :-)

> Also could they have picked a less masculine-sounding name (perhaps the
> HTC Twilight)?

The OS versions are cupcake, donut and eclair. Faced with that, HTC's names 
for the hardware seem somewhat irrelevant <hehehe>

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