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Re:Apple loses German patent court case by kgarten on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:33PM (#4565490)
Yes, I was pointing at the community aspect of open-source. Just to get some source dumps after a while does not mean "open-source" to me. Seems people at Hacker News see this differently.

Yet, I agree with your comments, in general. Why not split it like they did for Chrome (suggestion in the comment below).

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Re:Apple loses German patent court case by blinkingled on Monday September 24, 2012 @03:38PM (#4566512)
>Yes, I was pointing at the community aspect of open-source

There is a good reason for that. Show me one "community driven" open source project successful in the scale that Android is. Think about it, think about the other community driven SmartPhone OS projects and why they failed. What trade offs Google makes with Android are very fair and necessary - once they get the kernel bits in Korg it will only get better.

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