Google has their own internal repo which they haven't synced it up with the
public repo. Its all a bit confusing now since both master and the cupcake
branch seems to be broken now.

take care,
Muthu Ramadoss.

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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote:

> Its apache-licensed.  Just pretend that the upstream is 'equal' and they
> created a closed-source fork of it. (Since, realistically, thats what
> happened with the dream product tree. Compounded when they merged it to
> their p4/cupcake instead of the old master, basically making it forever
> unreachable.)
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> But  a group of OHA members made the first deployment where a number of
>> apps aren't equal (e.g. Market using locked down APIs, 3rd party
>> diallers being unable to call emergency services, etc.).
>>
>> So if the OHAs own members aren't sticking to that idea, why are the OHA
>> claiming it's one of features of an Android system?
>>
>> Al.
>>
>> Muthu Ramadoss wrote:
>> > "All Applications are created Equal"
>> >
>> > holds true for all applications created on top of Application Framework.
>> >
>> > It does not mean that the applications created will be open or free!
>> >
>> > take care,
>> > Muthu Ramadoss.
>> >
>> > http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz +91-9840348914
>> > http://mobeegal.in - mobile search. redefined.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM, aayush <[email protected]
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >     The adage that all applications are created equal cannot hold true
>> in
>> >     a real commercial rollout by a carrier.
>> >
>> >     Carriers would want to achieve service differentiation and a
>> >     competitive edge over their peers. So they would always want to lock
>> >     down some apps to provide them to only their customers.
>> >     If all applications would be equal, what value proposition will they
>> >     show to their customers ?
>> >
>> >     So i think, that this statement of application equality does not
>> hold
>> >     good....no matter how good the intentions may be..the carriers wont
>> >     tolerate it !
>> >
>> >     Aayush
>> >
>> >     Muthu Ramadoss wrote:
>> >     > I guess "All applications are created equal" will hold true when
>> >     you roll
>> >     > out your own custom Android implementation. If we consider the G1
>> >     > implementation of Android, of course the Carrier is going to
>> >     lock down a lot
>> >     > of Apps which the Carrier believes is important enough to be
>> >     locked down for
>> >     > various reasons.
>> >     >
>> >     >
>> >     > take care,
>> >     > Muthu Ramadoss.
>> >     >
>> >     > http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz +91-9840348914
>> >     > http://androidrocks.googlecode.com - Android Tutorial.
>> >     >
>> >     >
>> >     >
>> >     > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]
>> >     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >     >
>> >     > >
>> >     > > Debate on the policy is another (probably lengthy) discussion,
>> >     the fact
>> >     > > is that the policy exists and because of that all apps are not
>> >     equal as
>> >     > > the OHA site claim that "All applications are created equal"
>> >     doesn't
>> >     > > hold up.
>> >     > >
>> >     > > Al.
>> >     > >
>> >     > > Shane Isbell wrote:
>> >     > > >
>> >     > > >
>> >     > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Al Sutton
>> >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> >     > > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>> >     wrote:
>> >     > > >
>> >     > > >
>> >     > > >     They would need stretch that somewhat and define the
>> dialler
>> >     > > >     application
>> >     > > >     as non-core for that to work in relation to the block on
>> >     third party
>> >     > > >     diallers calling emergency services.
>> >     > > >
>> >     > > > This is one area I agree with Google on. If there is a
>> >     hostile app,
>> >     > > > dialing out false emergency requests, clogging the system,
>> >     people
>> >     > > > could die. Of course, Google deserves all the other crap you
>> >     give
>> >     > > > them, so keep swinging. Maybe some candy will fall out.
>> >     > > >
>> >     > > > Shane
>> >     > > >
>> >     > > >
>> >     > > > >
>> >     > >
>> >     > >
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