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Originally Posted by tersoth
"open source" is a joke. Google is just blowing smoke when they say that. If you have been following android for the last couple of months you'll know what im talking about. Gooogle started sending "stop and decist" letters to people at xda who were making custom ROMs. They can still distribute their custom ROMs but they cannot include any "google applications" (gmail, Google talk, Google maps, etc) because those applications are closed source and distributing them violates copywrite laws. microsoft has never done this..microsoft more open than Google, who would have guessed
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Google is worse then MS ever was. if you look at what google did they got the help of the open source community to help them develop a custom OS and applications the good stuff they turned into profit centers (nothing wrong with that if google invested there own money and time on there own) then when the OS got released they said ok now we took x amount of $$ so the OS really isnt opensource since we have some closed source apps tied into the the main OS. At least when you deal with MS, apple, and BB you know exactly what your getting. There is no reason why the complete OS could not be released for GSM and CDMA phones.