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It is not as 'open' as most software projects. They develop in a closed environment and dump the results on the community. There are long-standing bugs that hav
by tadfisher 15y ago
It is not as 'open' as most software projects. They develop in a closed environment and dump the results on the community. There are long-standing bugs that have been fixed in community distros such as Cyanogenmod, yet the Android team doesn't accept patches, because they're busy working on the next code dump.
At Google, there is no 'upstream'.
- notatoad 15y agoits not as open as community projects, but it is still open source. this is the sort of attitude that makes companies turn away from community development: the. sense of entitlement users get. they develop a great system, give it away for free, and publish the source. isn't that enough, do they really need to follow your preferred development pattern too? if you want to evangelize software freedom, how about commending Google for being as open as they are, and criticising the sellers of totally closed systems.