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mankash666 on Jan 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: RemixOS for PC released

Because they want to profit from it. BTW - the kernel layer is GPL-ed and is already available in source form with the Ansroid x86 project.

The Android layer is Apache licensed and they are't required to open source it, or using your own misleading verbiage, they can "get away with it".

niutech on Jan 13, 2016 [–]

How will they profit from giving away their OS for free? Maybe by gathering their users' data, given their EULA?

mankash666 on Jan 19, 2016 | [–]

I don't know what their exact business plan is. Just like Twitter STILL doesn't have a real business plan.

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