Hi ethan,

In addition to this, just because the system that application run on is open
source does not mean that every application developed to run on it is open
source.

It is up to the developer to decide which license he uses.  Obviously if he
bases his work or improves an existing open source application then they
have to honour that license.

On May 20, 2009 7:22 PM, "Ethan LeSabre" <[email protected]> wrote:


I'd just like to add a user's opinion if I may.

I'm a 30 year old G1 user and I love the Android platform, I think
it's great and I'm certainly not cheap.  I have bought 3 games which
were an absolute waste of money for me but once I'd bought them I
didn't want to get rid of them within the 24 hours as I felt guilty
that the designers had done so much hard work.

I've also bought a few apps, widgets and themes and I'm quite happy to
carry on buying them HOWEVER, what I'm not prepared to do is buy any
more games or random apps that I don't find useful.  This includes the
huge numbers of Notes apps, Tip apps, "spirituality" apps or comics.
To those devs who design other stuff I'm afraid that I sometimes can't
be bothered to trawl through the reams and reams of crud just to find
your gem - sorry!

One last thing that I was just wondering, since when did open source
automatically mean free?  I thought it meant that the source code was
open for anyone to use it, amend it or create using it?

Good luck to you all, and I hope I'll get the chance to try out some
of your apps!

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