[PLUG-TALK] speaking of Google...

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On 10/08/2012 04:22 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
> I learned this weekend that Google's Android has been progressively
> making it more and more difficult to use adhoc mode on their wifi.
> This is impacting people developing infrastructureless communications
> technologies (such as the awesomely cool Serval Project), particularly
> those that would be useful in disaster situations.  Furthermore, they
> are being less that transparent about why they are doing it.  The
> speculation is that carriers are pressuring them to eliminate it.  It
> is clear they are doing it intentionally (they are removing features
> that exist, by commenting out/deleting kernel code).  It is getting to
> the point that even if you go to the extreme measure of
> compile/installing your own kernel to reenable adhoc mode, the GSM and
> bluetooth modules will cease working.
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/android-platform/tLLspmSySbY
>
>
Google is not making it harder to use Ad-Hoc they simply have never 
supported it.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82

Android further is Open Source and you can pull the source from AOSP
and see that they have not removed the support from the Kernel
versus they just have not added support in their wifi toolsets.



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Benjamin Kerensa
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