Monday, September 28, 2009

So Android is not open source after all, it would seem...

The problem is, Google doesn’t like it when their closed source applications are redistributed. These are popular built-in applications such as:

  • GMail
  • Application Market
  • Google Maps
  • YouTube

So the next time someone shows you their Android phone and extols the virtues of the open source OS on it you can tell them: "Nuh-uh..."

Posted via web from Andrew Currie on Posterous