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A fair observer might allow that "Android" is still an Open source project, but only inasmuch as they explicitly identify Honeycomb as currently a closed-source
by roc 16y ago
A fair observer might allow that "Android" is still an Open source project, but only inasmuch as they explicitly identify Honeycomb as currently a closed-source fork of Android. Honeycomb may become open, but to discount the facts of today involves assumptions about future.
If our hypothetical fair observer were to disregard the assumed future altogether, things lean more toward Gruber than Google.
Google has gone out of their way to disavow pre-Honeycomb releases on tablets, and is withholding Honeycomb to only those tablet-makers who sign their agreements. They're currently doing exactly what Gruber asserts will become SOP and what they're currently doing with Honeycomb simply doesn't fit any fair definition of "Open Source" development. Not even their own.