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...

We were all expecting a cute looking Gphone from google, which would be cheap and fully loaded with useful software, and would sell hot in the market. With the kind of reach they have to the public, they could have capture the majority market share in one year. But google proved to be smarter than we thought. Google announced the Open Handset Alliance and the Android. The Open Handset Alliance™, a group of more than 30 technology...