The dirty little secret about Google Android (ZDNet)

Google can always change Android's licensing terms to GPL for future versions. Will that happen? I would not bet on that. Android looks more like an attempt to be a stone into Apple's shoe than anything else. This is not a bad thing 'per se', but I don't believe that it could survive should Google lose interest in it as a strategical weapon.

If we really do want open smartphones for the future we should be building a community backed effort that does not rely on the interest of corporations. There are lessons to be learned from what is happening to OpenSolaris.