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That's an old version of Android. The current version is not open to anyone but Google employees.
by MatthewPhillips 14y ago
That's an old version of Android. The current version is not open to anyone but Google employees.
- TillE 14y agoIt may not be the development trunk, but it's not an "old version". It's the latest release, 4.1.1.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoEh, releases are arbitrary points in the development cycle. There is new, stable, stuff in the dev trunk today, we just don't get to see it. I don't see any difference between Google code-dumping (because that's all they do) "releases" of Android and iD Software open-sourcing old versions of idTech. iD is just more honest about it.
- Karunamon 14y agoAn open source project only requires that you can see the code, not that you can see what any one person or team is working on at any given moment. Calling Google dishonest for making the latest released version of Android available seems disingenuous, at best.
- makomk 14y agoIn fact, many of the FSF's own open source projects had closed-off development processes from the start with only periodic source drops available.
- coliveira 14y agoIf you remove the community-based aspect from open source, there is not much of an advantage in it. This idea of regular code-drops seem just like a way of maintaining the minimum requirements to conform to the open source tag.