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Originally Posted by SporkLover
I understand the point you are trying to make very clearly. You are just wrong.
You need to delineate Android from Google's other application work. You are taking issue with how Google chooses to distribute Maps, Mail, etc on Android vs WM. Clearly that is an angering issue, but has no bearing on "how open Android is." It is how Google makes money from Android. Not really an old addage, but how do you make money off open source software? You write closed source software for it and charge.
Android is Open. You have already admitted, he can modify it, and redistribute it. He was not in trouble for that.
The Apps that Cyanogen was distributing were not. He clearly admitted that. The reason you don't have a problem with it on WM is because Google doesn't have restriction on the distribution of those apps on WM. You can go and download them freely. With Android you can't. They only come pre-installed, and they are put there by a business arrangement. Cyanogen violated that. There is nothing like that on WM. If there was, you can bet that Google would jump all over that too.
Just because Android as a Mobile OS is open, does not mean it is the wild west; you still have to abide by applicable Copyright and Distribution Rights.
I don't think Kill Switches fit in with the open source effort either. But Google put it in as a good faith effort to protect users, and IP holders, because Google doesn't vet the apps in the Android market. They need a mechanism to protect someone else's IP, and to protect their Market users from being exploited. They were up front about it before the Market even opened. They did not try to hide it. It was Terms of service that you had to accept in order to use the market. Within their Terms of Service they even state what they intend to use it for.
They have similar terms for distribution in the market:
Whether we like it or not as users, as Apple, Google, MS move into the software distributor channels, they are trying to protect themselves from possible litigation for distributing Malicious, illegal, etc software, by building in mechanism that allow them to remove apps they distribute. Even MS has this capability.
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I did not read Ur post really coz it jsut go bAck to where it stated. Here is the thing. U have an Android device. U cannot do whatever U want in it then distribute it. We already see the trouble it made. My point is, People tend to think, when they buy an android device, sky is the limit. I said no. Google still controls it plus the carrier. U did not want to agree on that fact. I do not care. it is proven that there is limitations as cyanogens situation is right now. Google is not as free and as open as the general population think it is. SO the open source. I can do anything I want on an Android is smashed. So I will say it again. Google Android, as they said Open source is still a theory. It is not as free as U would think on a mobile device.
I will not answer on this thread no more coz it is not appropriate. The other thread is more likely.
For the threads topic, Leo aka HD2 will not come to the US so pls. Do not wait.