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I see a great many reasons to keep it closed, not least of which is many millions of dollars worth in intellectual property.
by RealCasually 13y ago
I see a great many reasons to keep it closed, not least of which is many millions of dollars worth in intellectual property.
- e12e 13y agoWhat intellectual property do you think are in the pieces that are closed, in the Google apps and apis for android? There's certainly a lot of work put into making the stuff work -- but opening up the code won't make it stop working for Google. And I really doubt there's much fancy in there - mostly just grunt work to implement some straightforward ideas. I fail to see how opening that up under something like the GPL or AGPL, preventing someone to (legally) take the code and "run away" with it -- will lower the value of the Android system.