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It seems fairly obvious to me that if Android wasn't free and open source, it wouldn't have grown big and there wouldn't have been much money in license fee rev
by Drakim 16y ago
It seems fairly obvious to me that if Android wasn't free and open source, it wouldn't have grown big and there wouldn't have been much money in license fee revenue in the first place.
Same goes for stuff like Wikipedia and such. If it wasn't free, we wouldn't be talking about how big it is today, and the potential revenue would have been minimal.
- johng 16y agoDrakim is right. The question is, once it hits a critical point (arguably, it's already there with only Apple as a serious competitor) when will they decide to further monetize it?
- wmf 16y agoCarriers besides AT&T were so desperate for anything modern, they would have taken Android if it was $0 and "curated/opinionated" instead of open source. Google probably could have used licensing to lock out Bing, Sense, and other junk while ensuring that the ad revenue continues to flow.