am paying for the hardware, and the OS is free.
It is not free, unless you think Google is made of unpaid volunteers and all its shareholders are charities?
You are Gates’ customer, but you are Google’s inventory
It is not free, unless you think Google is made of unpaid volunteers and all its shareholders are charities?
You are Gates’ customer, but you are Google’s inventory
Or here:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/
Compile it and run it, you are inventory of Google for compiling free source code that you can modify however you want? Where do you get the source code like that to compile for Windows?
Here is the license for Android:
https://source.android.com/setup/licenses
Where is the license for Winblows?
2) you have no assurance that that’s what running on the handset nor what’s in the firmware or the driver binary blobs