I have no expectations at all that Rogers or anyone in Canada will release a phone with Android on it.
The idea is you will buy you own phone and put it on whatever network you want. In this case it would probably have to be Rogers since they have the only GSM network but I guess there is nothing stopping phone manufacturers from release Android CDMA phones as well. Regards, - John Lange www.johnlange.ca On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:20 -0400, Ian Darwin wrote: > John Lange wrote: > > Here is a recent article on Android. > > > > http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Android_s_Debut_Steals_the_Show_at_Google_IO > > > > The article mentions that Android will be released under an apache style > > opensource license. > > > > I see no indication that the OS will be locked into an ad supported > > model or anything of that kind. > > Sure, they promise to eventually release the source - for a generic > reference platform. Can you see Rogers or Bell or Telus shipping a > source kit that allows Jane Consumer to hack the inner workings of a > phone that they allegedly just bought ownership of? ROFL!! I predict - > based only on knowledge of the Apache license and how carriers think - > that you will see parts of Android used in locked phones that you do not > have ready access to AND that have an implicit clickwrap license that > says "thou shalt not rev-eng the code in this handset". Think iPhone. > Think The Empires Strike Back. > > Maybe I'll be proven wrong. Maybe the big carriers will think it's the > GPL and stay away from it altogether. Or maybe they'll ship with full > source code even though the Apache 2 license does not require it. Then > again, maybe George W or Stephen H will actually do something that > advances the cause of freedom. Or maybe pigs will fly. Your mileage may > vary. Void where prohibited by law and where inconvenient to > politicians' and big companies' powerlust. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
