How long can opensource survive in the midst of capitalist interest we r already seeing the problems sharing code works for tekkies not business
On Mar 26, 2011 6:29 PM, "Dennis Kioko" <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Google has refused to release the source code of Android 3.x , aka
> Honeycomb.
>
> Android been opensource, this is expected.
>
> Google gives a very B*tchy excuse in the form that if they release the
> course, open source developers will port the OS to phones. The OS was done
> specifically for tablets and made some compromises which will give users a
> bad user experience on phones, and Google cares so much it doesn't want to
> cause this.
>
> What google doesnt want to say that its is protecting the likes of Motorola
> , HTC , Samsung from Chinese manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE which will
> offer the same user experience on tablets at less than half the cost,
> according to H-Online
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-says-no-Android-Honeycomb-source-for-now-1215067.html
> .
>
> At the end, its Google's software though, if open source devs really want,
> they should work their asses off and add same functionality to 2.x
>
>
> --
> with Regards:
>
> The Chinese are known to be entrepreneurs, and coupled with some
> imagination, are now playing the role of nature in food and beverage
> production.
> http://gramware.blogspot.com/2011/01/chinese-way-to-become-imaginative.html