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Until Android is open-source in the public development sense there will always be hope and hype for a properly-free open alternative. What the world really nee
by willvarfar 16y ago
Until Android is open-source in the public development sense there will always be hope and hype for a properly-free open alternative.
What the world really needs is for some small competitor to Google in some space to make a very public attempt to get some tech into the tree. For example, for one of the smallest mapping companies to try and make an API for in-app mapping-services.
Then Google will wake up.
- shareme 16y agoahem, You are aware that OEM engineers who are open source comitters to android do have access, right?
- Tyrannosaurs 16y agoThat's more less closed than open though isn't it?
- seabee 16y agoIf it were open in the public development sense, how many more committers do you think there would be? 10% more? 50%? 200%? In the context of the rapidly-changing ubiquitous computing space with open-source (or even commoditised) hardware nowhere to be seen, I just don't see what gains would come from an OSS project rather than Android's 'eventually-open' model.