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A comment on Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary. Parent comment

Re:Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by... by zobzu on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:05PM (#6583023)
for development yes, thats like providing a SDK. I can develop just fine on Windows phones and even iOS :) So basically, its not really all that opensource anymore, that's what most people mean.
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Re:Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by... by yeet on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @03:18AM (#6590255)
it is not the same with providing an SDK. Well, if android was documented better, we would not need source code this much but most of the time, it requires checking the actual implementation to understand the whole picture. Probably it is the difference between being "just fine" to creating great things.
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