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		bitmapbrother on June 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AsteroidOS: An open-source operating system for sm... I'm looking at their GutHub repository and pretty much the majority of the big boy code was lifted from Android. `AsteroidOS/android_system_core AsteroidOS/android_frameworks_native AsteroidOS/android_bionic AsteroidOS/android_external_skia AsteroidOS/android_hardware_libhardware AsteroidOS/android_build` While the fluff such as the following is all theirs: `AsteroidOS/asteroid-calculator`

petecox on June 25, 2016 [–]

Most alternative firmwares bootstrap AOSP to some degree in some way for hardware support or adb/fastboot to shoe-horn an alternative ROM.

Reusing some low level code does not an Android make.

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