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I'm going to assume you mean Honeycomb. So you agree then, that Honeycomb is not available, and that google is withholding it for "some reason" (although you j

I'm going to assume you mean Honeycomb. So you agree then, that Honeycomb is not available, and that google is withholding it for "some reason" (although you just have to look at their own statements, they're withholding it because they don't want OEMs putting it on phones). How is that "open"?

rbanffy 15y ago
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382585,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382585,00.asp "Android 3.0, Honeycomb, was designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes and improves on Android favorites such as widgets, multi-tasking, browsing, notifications and customization," Google said in an email to PCMag.com. "While we're excited to offer these new features to Android tablets, we have more work to do before we can deliver them to other device types including phones. Until then, we've decided not to release Honeycomb to open source. We're committed to providing Android as an open platform across many device types and will publish the source as soon as it's ready." Meaning it's not ready. (emphasis mine) I have to agree that, right now, Android has a closed branch (two - HC and whetever's not released) but claiming it's closed-source because it has one branch closed is not quite honest - like claiming MySQL is not open-source because they sell proprietary addons. My phone runs the open-source 2.3.4 version that was assembled by developers who don't work for Google.