Imagine if Android were dual license GPLv3 or commercial & the latter required device to download official distro with no junk mods.
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Signing also costs money which I don't have... (yes there are ways around this)
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If you can make physical devices that actually need device-specific drivers (not just USB HID, storage, etc.) you prob. have $$ for signing.
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Ideally everything would run on standard protocols and no device-specific drivers would be needed, ever.
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Driver signing is just a protection racket. It makes no actual guarantees about the code.
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No, it means the driver underwent some level of scrutiny and that the normal sorts of hacks/crapware the hw vender wanted to do were removed
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It's not a perfect system (perfect system would be no drivers at all & no need for them), but it's much better than the 9x/XP era.
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You can still pull all the same crap. Raymond Chen even explains how: have a "be terrible" registry key and set it to 0 in the...
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"for testing" installer bundle, get the stamp from the protection racket, and then set the key to 1 in the real installer you ship.
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A) "If only Android was as good as Windows" seems a bit misguided. B) keep vendor drivers in their own fork, never merge them upstream?
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