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> We make the code open source when the first device is ready. What I don't understand is this: weren't people upset that 3.0 wasn't (still isn't?) available w

• cube13 15y ago
  That's pretty much the problem. Google has not released the source for Honeycomb, even though the first device is out, and several more are supposed to be launched in the next month. He's completely sidestepping the issue here. The issue isn't that Google's development is not transparent or community oriented. Android is developed by Google in-house, so it's their decision for when they should release the source. Most of the time, they were fairly prompt about releasing the source(somewhere around 1-2 weeks at most). Those delays are acceptable, because Google probably did a final pass to take out useless comments and other randomness that works it's way into any source tree. The issue is that Android is supposed to be an Open Source OS, which means that the source should be available if you can get the software. Since Honeycomb hasn't had the source released, it really can't be called that.
• martingordon 15y ago
  There's a difference between launching and being ready.