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Re:The Android Opportunity by ruslan on Monday August 17, 2009 @06:21PM (#769261)
It's so frustrating when progress gets stuck against someone's greed. I think Google should make Android open source so everyone could commit their code to support features despite the will of Apple or mobile carriers. And this will also invite smaller vendors to use and populate Android.
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Re:The Android Opportunity by dkokelley on Monday August 17, 2009 @07:10PM (#769350)
Android is open source (http://source.android.com/). The hardware is proprietary (AFAIK). People have run MT demo applications.

It's so frustrating when progress gets stuck against someone's greed.

I would actually argue that greed has driven the majority of progress over the last century.

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