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Originally Posted by SporkLover
It isn't the same thing. Those Android apps have specified distribution licenses. Their counteparts on WM dont have that.
You can't seem to delineate Google's Android Efforts, from their Android App development efforts.
What they choose to do with their close sourced apps, how they distribute them, has no bearing on how open Android is.
Think of those Apps as like the Paid NERO app for Linux. You pay for those apps as a built in cost of the phone. You Cannot redistribute them. Just like you can't Copy a paid NERO program from your linux computer and make it available for others. That is what Cyanogen was doing, even if he had the best of intentions.
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Dude, Youtube app and Google Maps is a paid App for Android? That is what the Initial google problem with cyanogen. This aint no warez problem. Google never claimed that Cyanogen is distributing Paid Apps. They claim about closed apps.