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Re:Google confirms Android 4.0 ICS is open source by dabeeeenster on Thursday October 20, 2011 @11:18AM (#3135224)
Because the quality of the source code and the quality of the resultant binaries are two completely different things.
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Re:Google confirms Android 4.0 ICS is open source by sovande on Thursday October 20, 2011 @12:19PM (#3135543)
The source code is used to produce the "resultant binaries" so unless you have a very strange definition of "quality" the OP has a very valid question.
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Re:Google confirms Android 4.0 ICS is open source by zmmmmm on Thursday October 20, 2011 @06:56PM (#3137490)
> a very strange definition of "quality"

Is it strange that, say, comments are stripped out of a binary? Or that the file names of the source files are not in there? These things are examples of aspects of quality that have no impact on the binary but make a big difference to the quality of the source.

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