On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:
> > tauntz wrote: > > Did you just say that Google is not pushing code/releases to tmo > > Of course Google doesn't push code/releases to T-Mobile. T-Mobile is a > mobile carrier. > > > and > > that tmo pulls the public source at random points in time, adds dream > > specific bits and releases it to end-users? > > HTC pulls source at whatever time schedule they deem appropriate. HTC > engineers are working on the code constantly and can make their own > decisions vis a vis their product lines. Neither you nor I, nor possibly > Google, is in position to tell HTC what they can or cannot do. > HTC provides the radio images to google engineers. Beyond that, 90+% of the work is done by google. (And before everyone starts jumping up and down claiming android isn't google, take a look at the paychecks... they're signed by google.) > > Now, if HTC is sensible, they will primarily stick to major releases > plus milestone bug fix updates, but that's not something you should be > relying upon. > > That would be those things everyone is asking about. When is the milestone and major release for Android? After someone has already shipped a closed source version off the secret tree? All the "its not us" crap breaks down when you accept that the changes that become 1.1 (and 1.5 and beyond) go into the open tree AFTER they go to the closed trees, and in many cases after they go to an actual released product... > > You do realize that all > > releases till today have come from a closed source project and not > > AOSP? > > HTC may have access to a private *repository*, but AFAIK, the bits are > still open source. Open source is a matter of licensing, not a statement > of public collaborative development. > Its not accessible to anyone else, thereby making it closed. Thats the beauty of apache, you can have it both ways if you wish hard enough and wave enough marketing material around. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
