G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS

RandyDownes writes "And you thought the Droid X's kill switch was bad. HTC and T-Mobile's new G2 can detect when it's been rooted and responds by reinstalling the factory OS. This seems like a violation of the Apache license Android is licensed under and is especially ironic given Eric Schmidt's recent statement about not requiring carriers to give consumers the option to install Google's own version of the OS. Schmidt called it a violation of the principles of open source." Update: 10/06 17:47 GMT by S : As readers have noted, the G2 is not from Motorola. Here's a better source, and here's the XDA Developers thread discussing the issue.

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Re:The Reason Why

[John Hasler]

To prevent me from owning my own hardware is intrinsically evil.

If you buy it you own it, complete with this feature and the legal right to bypass it if you can figure out how.

If your claim was true they would offer a simple, press Z on the hardware keyboard while you boot to not have the OS replaced or something.

Why would they do that? They don't care about you. You are not the target market. They know they are likely to lose your business. There aren't enough of you to make it worth their while to do as you suggest.