Nearly everybody knows that Android is built on top of a Linux kernel, so that should mean that it is good old-fashioned open-source software, right? Actually, that’s not the case. […]
While that probably doesn’t bother the vast majority of users, hackers get particularly upset when they feel that they don’t truly own the system that they are using. So it was inevitable that a group of hackers would attempt to build their own fully working open source Android stack from scratch. Enter Replicant.