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+-   Google Open Sources Android-> on Tuesday October 21 2008, @11:01AM rsk

Submitted by rsk on Tuesday October 21 2008, @11:01AM
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rsk writes "It's official, Google has Open Sourced Android. The source code can be downloaded from Android's Git repository. Bugs are handled at the Google Code Android project page with documentation being handled by a collection of Google Site pages.

One of the more interesting aspects of Android seems to be the seemingly Eclipse Foundation-like organization of the project, welcoming both Individual and Commercial developers into the Android development pot. One of the benefits of this arrangement is securing the existence of the project by involving commercial interests and their money in the process... this is also one of the downsides; having commercial entities charter and lead features of a platform that their own commercial offerings provide "enhanced" versions of, sometimes leaving the free offering always lacking in one obvious way or another. It's hard to say at this point how involved Google will be in this process, or the Open Handset Alliance in general, with managing the health of sub-projects under the Android umbrella as time goes on."
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