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One of the prominent independent devs working on some of the Samsung Galaxy S phones recently gave a presentation to the higher ups at Samsung, trying to sell them on the idea of forming a real, unified open source community around the Galaxy S Android phones, with things such as formally releasing development ROMs (that, currently, people just leak instead), along with the source, as well as doing their development in a public Git repositories.

It seems that the presentation had at least SOME impact on Samsung, because since then they sent a rep to try to work with the communities on the XDA developer forums (it's where the majority of the Samsung ROM community exists), by answering various technical questions. Admittedly, so far, the guy has pretty much just been flamed non-stop, with more than a few developers suspicious his real reason for being there is just to track down the people leaking the development roms.... but it's _possibly_ progress.

As you can imagine, such a shift by Samsung would be a major win for the open source community, Android, and even Samsung.