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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by typon on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @08:50AM (#17557866)
If Google had gone the open source route out of the goodness of their hearts, you'd have an argument. Google went the open source route to bootstrap on top of a well known operating system (Linux), as well as to accelerate adoption and catch up to Apple as fast as they could. Then once they got market dominance, they abused their position to stifle competition.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by miracle2k on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @09:16AM (#17558059)
Are you suggesting that to interpret the law correctly here, a court has to judge Google's motivation of releasing the Android code as Open Source?

Further, if Apple were to decide, tomorrow, to release iOS as open source, would they also be in violation of the law (possibly depending on their motivation?)

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @09:18AM (#17558077)
> Are you suggesting that to interpret the law correctly here, a court has to judge Google's motivation of releasing the Android code as Open Source?

The law often hinges on intent along with action, that's hardly novel.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by dlp211 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @09:13AM (#17558039)
There is nothing that you said that requires Android to be open source.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by typon on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @09:57AM (#17558388)
I think Android's popularity and extremely quick adoption owes itself to the fact that it's open source.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by scarface74 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:00AM (#17559019)
It owes to being free not open source. OEMs really only had three choices. Create their own OS (horrible choice), use Windows Mobile or use Android. The deciding factor was free. Phone manufacturers no more cared about open source than Windows anufacturers.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by arminiusreturns on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:43AM (#17558848)
Are you just ignoring the part where they use linux which has a gplv2 license?
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