> If it was actually Open Source, XDA developers would actuall have real, original development, and features like lock screen widgets, officially added in JB 4.

> If it was actually Open Source, XDA developers would actuall have real, original development, and features like lock screen widgets, officially added in JB 4.2 this year, would have been completed by the community in 2009. I agree in general that if AOSP was an actual open source project things would be better but I don't think XDA would be any different. It's been full of end users for years now and most of them are easily fooled by stuff like this. CyanogenMod is developed in the open and they do have quite a few contributors, but it's not terribly ground breaking (although some of their features do get reimplemented in AOSP eventually). The fact is that the Android project is really a gigantic codebase and it takes a lot of time to get started (and even on a really fast machine, 20-40 minutes to build), and a lot of the work CyanogenMod developers do is porting to hardware that's unsupported by AOSP, not feature development.