> Al has a valid point. If Google creates products that compete with
> open-source ones, it harms the open-source ones. One big example I can think
> of was Microsoft killing NDoc, a very popular doc generation tool, when they
> released Sandcastle.

The example Al gave, "secrets-for-anndroid" is open source itself, so
are they somehow harming themselves?  The fact that this is an open
source project will actually benefit others.  Newcomers to Android can
take a look at that app and learn from it, possibly even improve upon
it.

The way I see it, it is competition and if the others are not willing
to step up their game a bit and "compete," then that is their own
fault.  If google decided to make an app similar to one of the ones
I've released, then I would need to either improve upon mine to
compete, or suck it up and move on.


~clark
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