Google talks up Android: open ecosystems lead to innovation (ars technica)

ars technica reports from Robert Love's Android talk at LugRadio Live. "Google has done a lot to demonstrate its commitment to making Android an open and inclusive platform, but there are still some issues that concern developers. Although the kernel and much of the platform source code are available from a public git repository, there are still some parts of the stack that haven't been fully opened yet. Love cited the high rate of code churn as one reason why some code isn't public at this stage and said that all of the source code will be fully available under open licenses after phones start to ship during the second half of this year. 'To do this right—to open source this in a way that is beneficial to the community—we want to wait until the code isn't a big mess.''

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