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Videos from the Android Builders Summit
Videos of the
talks from the Android Builders Summit, held in April, have now been
posted. There are talks on Android internals, Linux audio for smartphones,
device provisioning, Gerrit, GPL compliance, and more.
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Videos from the Android Builders Summit Posted May 26, 2011 8:48 UTC (Thu) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606) [Link]
I find it funny that when Google decided not to release the source code of Android 3.0 (which is their right not to release it, since they are the owner -- except for the GPL part like Linux, which is available) people running around screaming louder than any jumbo jet on full throttle yet just grumble when hardware manufacter decides to withhold the modified source code of a GPL software (which is a GPL violation).
It would be great if more people take software license compliance of the hardware manufacturer into consideration in buying decision. After all, it will be beneficial to the customers (and future customers) by forcing hardware manufacturer to constantly try to out-innovate each other.
Videos from the Android Builders Summit Posted May 26, 2011 15:52 UTC (Thu) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]
Perhaps some people simply care more about misuse of the "open source" label to describe an entire software stack for which no source code is actually available--whether or not there is any legal requirement that it be *made* available--than they care about technical GPL violations in some minor platform-specific patches? Just a thought. Not everyone in the open source community cares for the GPL, but dilution of the "open source" label harms us all.
In Google's case, the actual license and/or authorship of the code is not the problem. It is true that they have no legal obligation to release most of the code. However, Android has been advertised as an open-source project, and yet versions have been shipped for which there is no source code forthcoming. This is rightly seen as a betrayal of the original terms on which they received much of their support compared to their closed-source competitors (iOS, Windows Mobile).
Videos from the Android Builders Summit Posted May 27, 2011 2:18 UTC (Fri) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606) [Link]
Your point of view can explain the anomaly. Especially the comparison with Android's competitor part. Here, in local radio tech talk show a few days ago, most people perceive device with Android OS as a more flexible and modder friendly (and wayyyy cheaper, except for the high-ends) than iOS device, no mention of WP7 at all perhaps because not even one owns a WP7 phone.
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