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CyanogenMod 10 on the Nexus 7CyanogenMod 10 on the Nexus 7Posted Dec 7, 2012 16:10 UTC (Fri) by kugel (subscriber, #70540)In reply to: CyanogenMod 10 on the Nexus 7 by bronson Parent article: CyanogenMod 10 on the Nexus 7
> Thanks to the heroic efforts of the Google folks working on the Android Open Source Project, those code dumps are both timely and useful for the community. They are a great gift, and we should never forget the value of that gift.
That's a pretty strong praise in my book.
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CyanogenMod 10 on the Nexus 7 Posted Dec 7, 2012 19:22 UTC (Fri) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652) [Link]
I maybe wrong (I am not a native English speaker), but I can see some sarcasm in that quote.
CyanogenMod 10 on the Nexus 7 Posted Dec 7, 2012 20:03 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
It is praise. Would we be better off if Google did not do this? if they did their code dumps in ways that were not directly useful to us? (simple tarballs for each release instead of a git tree), or if they delayed for a year before releasing the code?
There are a lot of people who criticize people who contribute to opensource for being less than perfect. In many cases, there is a lot more criticism of people who contribute imperfectly than of the companies who are actively hostile and contribute nothing.
It's important to recognize the contributions from companies, even while we state that we wish they were doing more. In many ways, when you are criticizing them, that is when it's most important to praise them for what they are already doing.
Praise Posted Dec 7, 2012 23:58 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] It is praise: Google is doing a good thing here. We get a lot of free code, and, incidentally, a smartphone/tablet market that is not completely dominated by locked-down, proprietary solutions. Seems worthy to me.One can say that while, at the same time, saying that things could be a lot better. I think I tried to say that too. But one should not lose sight of what's good just because it's far from perfect.
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