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I remember that, I liked the idea except for Google being involved. The dream would be a fully modular phone running Linux. I don't ever see that becoming a reality, but hey.
Right, getting a Linux phone to work well still hasn't been achieved, let alone on modular hardware!
What do you mean by "running Linux"? Android is Linux.
By that logic MacOS is FreeBSD. Android has a modified Linux kernel, doesn't run GNU software or basically any Linux applications natively and it has a bunch of Google proprietary crap on top of it, when I mean "running Linux" I mean running a FOSS GNU/Linux distro.
There's Android forks out there that avoid Google's crap. LineageOS and GrapheneOS come to mind. Though I'm less familiar with all that.
I know, but you're still at the mercy of Google's upstream codebase. Don't get me wrong, degooglefying Android is better than nothing but it's not the ideal we should be striving for.