On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Riyaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Google wants everyone to depend on them ???? > Not really, otherwise there wouldn't be any reason to even try the open-source thing. The reason why everything is not entirely developed in the open source tree are multiple, but basically boil down to the fact that product development has a much higher priority at the moment than building a strong and pure open-source community for the platform. However, the latter is still a goal that we strive to achieve, and be sure we will get there at some point. For example, the open-source donut branch really reflect the state of our current sources, with a slight delay compared to the internal tree. Also; I know a couple of manufacturers that are using the open-source Cupcake sources to build real products; so I disagree with Disconnect's assumption that the open-source tree is "totally useless" :-). > On Aug 10, 9:10 pm, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: > > Evidently it won't, thats why they decided to do occasional code dumps > and > > leave the open source project totally useless to developers. > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/msg/7e9d83aa0b08cd39(and<http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/msg/7e9d83aa0b08cd39%28and> > > associated thread) > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Riyaz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > Just wanted to know of curiosity, > > > > > Why Google released Android as Open Source ? > > > > > or in other words How open sourcing Android will help Google? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
