G+_Snuffy Sims Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 I've been following the discussion of the open/closed nature of Android as it migrated from AAA to TWiG, and I think the confusion comes from the term "open source". When people, especially developers, think of open source, they think of "open" in the "open collaboration" sense, like Linux, Mozilla, or Apache. When Google says Android is open, they mean "we'll let you read the source code". That's "open" in that it's not proprietary, but it's not what we usually mean by "open source". I think we need another word for what Android is. If Google wanted to really make it open, they could release it to the public domain. Then we could call it "public source". But I'll bet there are still strings attached to the source that makes it not quite public. Maybe "published source"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_David Crow Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 We had a good post on this last week: http://goo.gl/lLUU1x "Published source" sounds good. I'd like to see more differentiation between AOSP and the Google apps. As many of those apps are now available across different platforms, it might be good for Google, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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