Android is the parent to a whole family of distributions. Open sourcers and carriers and device manufacturers are all shipping their own robotic children, often with significant changes. Nothing stops them or you from developing a plan and a feature different from the parent Android. If the feature is good and popular enough, it might indeed be merged upstream or laterally. That's how open source has always worked...
On Oct 30, 2009 2:35 PM, "Anders Rundgren" <[email protected]> wrote: Platform security is not something you can add as a patch, it requires a plan. Currently the plan is unknown and will stay so because it is only the released code that is open in Android. That doesn't mean that Google or Android are bad, it just means that there are fairly big limits to what externals can contribute with. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chris Palmer > To: [email protected]... > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 19:49 > Subject: [android-security-discuss] Re: Enterprise Securit... > As an occasional Android insider and a full-time security researcher and advocate, perhaps I can p...
