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The Android mobile OS will be released under Apache License. This means that anyone can customize the android platform and then keep it proprietary. There is no commitment that the source needs to be published. The open source community already raised their concerns to this approach.
I believe this is to protect the monetary investment companies make to build new technology into the platform. After all there is no free lunch.
But a competing platform, Openmoko is completely open and free to use. Their argument is that, they give the openmoko for free, so everyone who improves upon it also should give it free the community.
What ever the case may be, android is helping the developer community learn and experiment. Also it is spreading linux as a popular operating system for mobile phones. Windows mobile really sucks, and symbian too.
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Looking at the pace things are going, I expect Microsoft too come to the fight. They also have some OpenSource Initiative, and now lets watch and wait. BTW, I was wondering why there are no Opensource Game Console initiatives? There may be something, but not popular.
I don’t think Andriod LIC is a good Idea. Though it will help protect intellectual property, it does not really help the product grow and moreover support will now be a problem.
Look at linux for example, for almost any kind of problem you face, you just have to google it or search in the Linux Forums and 99.9% you will find an answer. That was support - on the matter of growth look at how Linux has grown - Linux has taken over the Server side of computers a few years ago and now is threatening the desktop and mobile market…
About Gaming platforms - unfortunately Gammers are not too good with programing and Programmers are not too keen with Games…But who knows - necessity is the mother of all evil…
hmmm quite interesting
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