Android for all practical purposes is as good as a closed ecosystem with apps tied to closed source Google services and the inability to run Linux on your Android phones. This kind of lip service and self serving tip toeing around the spirit of open source in many ways does more harm to open source than closed source.

How is it that devices drivers that work on Android perfectly are not available for use on Linux? What purpose does this kind of 'open source' then serve?

Between Arm, its licensees and Google the ball is kicked around with open source devs struggling for years to make things work. Yet the narrative is this is no one's fault least of all Google and Arm, the 2 most powerful forces in the Android ecosystem.

Google the planet's largest spyware and adware company is now making its own kernel. More power to them but given their track record healthy skepticism of their objectives and agenda is called for.