What exactly is rooting?
I have spent 30 years writing software, having written many many lines of code. I have done assembler on Intel, Motorola and the IBM S/370 CPUs. I have modified a boot BIOS on a network card, re-burned it and successfully loaded Windows off a network server for a diskless PC. But I have some trouble understanding what exactly this rooting for Android is.
Android is open source. So isn't everything naked and available? Is the design of Android that unconventional? You don't have to root a PC to take total control. You don't have to root a server to take total control. You don't have to root a mainframe to take total control. What you need is just an administrator's password. Why is Android so special?
Perhaps an article to solve this puzzle for me and the few other posters here would be useful. Thanks.
