Thanks for giving us a peek at the early development of Android. It's interesting that Andy was pushing open-source for altruistic reasons, but I'm tempted to

Thanks for giving us a peek at the early development of Android. It's interesting that Andy was pushing open-source for altruistic reasons, but I'm tempted to think that it happened to also be the best business strategy - despite what the suits thought at the time. Every business school teaches that IBM made one of the worst business decisions of all time when it licenced the software for its new personal computers from Microsoft. Samsung certainly didn't want to make the same mistake, and an open-source operating system can always be forked so Samsung had a guarantee it wouldn't end up paying the 'Windows tax'. If Android was closed-source it would have found it much more difficult to get that critical early install base. But with a successful open-source platform it could then develop its closed-source Play service. To me this one-two punch would make a great business school case study in favour of Android's open/closed-source hybrid approach