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If they're ready to ship the binaries, they should be ready to ship the source code.

• rick_bc 16y ago
  Right. But they does not claim HoneyComb is open source. (They does not deny it outright though. That's little devilish (evilish not a word!), but I can sympathy with them)
• metageek 16y ago
  >If they're ready to ship the binaries It's a little more nuanced than that. They believed the binaries were a good product for 10-inch tablets, but would perform badly on smaller screens. If they ship source, though, people will try to get it running on small screens. That's what the Ars article is referring to as cutting corners (an inflammatory statement): Honeycomb could have been generic enough to be a good product on all screen sizes, but they needed to save time to let the Xoom meet its ship date.
  • enjo 16y ago
    I'm arguing that Google didn't even believe that the binaries were a good product for 10-inch tablets. My bet is that Motorola forced their hand a bit, as opposed to waiting for the software to actually be complete. It's a pretty long list of issues with the XOOM software even today.
• billmcneale 16y ago
  That's an amazingly naive observation. My simple question to you is: why do you think that? Shipping a mobile operating system is an impossibly complex task, but surely you can understand a parallel with a simple application: just because you wrote an app that's being successful doesn't mean you're ready to open source it the same day you release it. Maybe you want to clean it up, or refactor it, or make it easier to be reused by the open source community.