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Are android phones anti opensource or anti linux?!

High at Heart & Madness in Ma Mind When i bought my new expensive android phone i was all excited not just because of buying a new phone but once again choosing to be with an open-source technology but that feeling did not last long. After few days struggling with it i realized that open source has been a victim of exploitation from the beginning. I remember the song 'some of them want to use you, some of them want to be used by you' by marilyn manson. Everybody want to be benefited from open source but no body wants to pay it back or show some respect to it and the least of all is android phones. The main and the only reason android became more favorable than iOS so quickly is because it is an open source software. Linux is a major part of the GNU movement or the open-source movement and the fact that android OS is based on Linux but none of the android devices support Linux is the heights of hypocrisy. There are no android devices in the market which has a sync software