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ELC: Android and the community

ELC: Android and the community

Posted Apr 15, 2010 17:34 UTC (Thu) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545)
In reply to: ELC: Android and the community by bronson
Parent article: ELC: Android and the community

Also look at "Google and the Mystery of the Disappearing AI Researcher"


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ELC: Android and the community

Posted Apr 15, 2010 19:16 UTC (Thu) by cdibona (subscriber, #13739) [Link]

Which shows someone has let his journal subscriptions lapse. Similarly, we've released upwards of 17m lines of code over the last 5 years. YEs, developers ebb and flow out of open source when they work here. I don't think that matters.

also:

AKPM is a google employee and osdl isn't paying his salary anymore.
Robert Love isn't on the android team.

If you actually are interested in reading further, Brad Fitz wrote the following on the topic:

http://brad.livejournal.com/2409049.html

It's pretty insightful.

ELC: Android and the community

Posted Apr 15, 2010 23:00 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Oh, this was meant in good fun. Google's been an outstanding contributor to the industry and open source. (now if we could just get the Android team to avoid source drops...)

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ELC: Android and the community

Posted Apr 16, 2010 0:00 UTC (Fri) by cdibona (subscriber, #13739) [Link]

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ELC: Android and the community

Posted Apr 19, 2010 12:01 UTC (Mon) by lmb (subscriber, #39048) [Link]

The link to Brad's journal is indeed very interesting; thanks for that. It is not without irony to correlate his remedy for why people prefer the Google internal development environment with the discussion here - his request for making Open Source projects more accessible is exactly what people complain about with regard to Android. Foot -> mouth, I think. ;-)

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