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Are you suggesting it was never open before? To me, open development includes: - real-time commit read access and forkability - a feedback/patch process

by seiji 16y ago

Are you suggesting it was never open before? To me, open development includes: - real-time commit read access and forkability - a feedback/patch process for community improvements - open discussions on future directions and decisions I haven't followed closely, but I think Google/Android has: - source delivered when they are ready for you to have it - Google as The Authority with Blessed Developers who do all the work - (does their feedback/patch process work or is it lip service?) - press events to announce new features/directions It's as if Apple started giving iOS source code to the public once per quarter with no way to contact their developers or management. Android is pandering to developers (developers, developers, developers), not open source.

cryptoz 16y ago
> a feedback/patch process for community improvements http://source.android.com/source/life-of-a-patch.html http://source.android.com/source/life-of-a-patch.html http://source.android.com/source/submit-patches.html http://source.android.com/source/submit-patches.html Seems completely transparent and open to me. For the rest of your criticism, Google is very clear that as time goes by the process will get more and more open. > It's our intention to move more of these parts to open development over time. From http://source.android.com/faqs.html#aosp http://source.android.com/faqs.html#aosp > Android is pandering to developers (developers, developers, developers), not open source. The latest Android 2.3 phone source code is here: http://source.android.com/source/download.html http://source.android.com/source/download.html Again: That's the latest, most up-to-date Android phone software Google has developed. I can't speak about why Honeycomb isn't open source yet, but I imagine it will be very very soon and this discussion will immediately be meaningless.

by seiji 16y ago

cryptoz 16y ago

> a feedback/patch process for community improvements http://source.android.com/source/life-of-a-patch.html http://source.android.com/source/life-of-a-patch.html http://source.android.com/source/submit-patches.html http://source.android.com/source/submit-patches.html Seems completely transparent and open to me. For the rest of your criticism, Google is very clear that as time goes by the process will get more and more open. > It's our intention to move more of these parts to open development over time. From http://source.android.com/faqs.html#aosp http://source.android.com/faqs.html#aosp > Android is pandering to developers (developers, developers, developers), not open source. The latest Android 2.3 phone source code is here: http://source.android.com/source/download.html http://source.android.com/source/download.html Again: That's the latest, most up-to-date Android phone software Google has developed. I can't speak about why Honeycomb isn't open source yet, but I imagine it will be very very soon and this discussion will immediately be meaningless.