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As to general snarkiness about openness of Android: please come back when you can download source code to iOS or WP7 or BlackBerry, compile it and then install
by SoftwareMaven 15y ago
As to general snarkiness about openness of Android: please come back when you can download source code to iOS or WP7 or BlackBerry, compile it and then install on your device.
While I agree the snarkiness doesn't help his point and in fact has no bearing on the argument at all, to say Google is OK to not release the source for their self-proclaimed, open system because other vendors have not released the source for their self-proclaimed, extremely closed systems is ludicrous.
- cookiecaper 15y agoI think his point is that Google has released their source. As he pointed out, Google Movies is an application and it doesn't have to be open-source just because the Android OS is open-source. It's a completely independent piece of code. Anyway, this is much ado about nothing since I'm sure there will be a patched version out almost immediately.
- gergles 15y agoReally? Please point me to the Honeycomb source for my Xoom.* * I don't actually own a Xoom, but that's not the point.
- twinsnes 15y agohttp://source.android.com/source/downloading.html http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
- darklajid 15y agoYou know that Honeycomb is not available (the whole point of the GP) and your 'eat this' link is totally not helpful? If you'd followed that you'd seen that you will end up with Gingerbread instead [1]. 1: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a=heads http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a=heads
- steevdave 15y agoActually, the GPL and LGPL portions of Honeycomb have been in the repositories for a while. What most people are clamoring for, is actually the portions that aren't GPL/LGPL.