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How about you give the community a working free phone by shipping a phone that runs vanilla AOSP and try evolving it into what you think you want it to be? At least that way, when Linux-desktop-on-the-phone proves itself (again) to be an even worse failure than Linux-on-the-desktop, the world will still be left with a free phone, instead of a free phone that strangled by its associated with a doomed software strategy.

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On the phone we plan to produce, you will be able to install Android as matter of fact - it is just that we will not do it by our default as we want a pure Linux stack that is going to roll in updates normally as desktop is and not being attached to older kernels and heavy forks of ecosystem. Even for scale of Google it is not feasible to do it that way so they are now doing their own research and development (Fuchsia OS or something like that).

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