At the minimum, to show that Android is not a locked down walled-garden of a system and you're free to choose what you can do with it to the point you can install a different OS on it?
I believe it's more a problem about SoC manufacturers than a problem of android by itself.
You can already just install UbuntuTouch
Android is an os.
Nobody said it wasn't.
He probably meant to say Open Source operating system.
What's the point into doing it?
At the minimum, to show that Android is not a locked down walled-garden of a system and you're free to choose what you can do with it to the point you can install a different OS on it?
I believe it's more a problem about SoC manufacturers than a problem of android by itself.
You can already just install UbuntuTouch
Android is an os.
Nobody said it wasn't.
He probably meant to say Open Source operating system.
Something like samsung Dex on regular android?