Open Is Relative

A couple of weeks ago Google announced that they were not releasing the source code for Android 3.0, code named Honeycomb. The news lead to a range of speculation about what Google was doing and whether they were having second thoughts about releasing Android as open source. Apple iPhone supporters who have often stated that Android is not truly open had their “I told you so” moment.

The majority of users, those who are not geeks, don’t know about open source, and really don’t care whether Google releases the source code for Android.

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