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Android source available

Posted Oct 22, 2008 10:09 UTC (Wed) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)
In reply to: Android source available by ikm
Parent article: Android source available

I think it's perfectly reasonable to not support all distros, *if*

1. At least one significant distro is supported completely, i.e., it works there (this is then a base to start from), and

2. Google cooperates with other distros in getting it to work with them as well, if/when those distros are serious about doing so, and

3. No code/build scripts/etc. are made in a way that would make them hard to run on other distros.

We already have (1), and I hope that (2) and (3) as well. If so, then I find no fault here.

Now, if this *wasn't* open source, then I would have very different criteria. In particular, I would expect at least the major distros to be supported by the vendor. (Of course I prefer if it's open source, but I'm just contrasting. For open source, I expect less from the vendor because we the community can and should do part of the work.)


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