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looking at how the galaxy nexus was treated on Verizon, I doubt they have much interest. Verizon would probably be for measures to prevent the bootloader from being unlocked and want control of updates.

Mozilla probably doesn't want to agree to those terms either, so I would be surprised if Verizon ever had one.

Just my experience with being a long time Verizon user and Android OS hobbyist modder.

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Technically they could just take FirefoxOS and lock it down if they wanted - Mozilla's approval is not needed

Perhaps something could be added into the license agreement to prevent such usage?

But they wouldn't be able to call it FirefoxOS. The source may be open but the brand & trademark certainly aren't.

Yeah, I think you're correct. They'd have to remove all Firefox branding/advertising if they went against Mozilla's wishes.

True, sans all the Firefox branding and such they could do that without Mozilla's consent. With how Verizon went out of their way to ensure their Galaxy S3 was the only one that prevented users for easily unlocking the bootloader and enabling system writing, I don't foresee a positive future with any open OS on Verizon. I'm probably switching to T-Mobile when my contract is up next year. I enjoy the unlimited LTE dataspeed on Verizon I still have, but I'm not interested in keeping it while paying full price for a phone I don't really want.

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