On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:30 PM, E <blockswo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I appreciate the "so help and send patches!" request, and I'm glad the
> codebase is open. However, for a product which is being sold on a
> production device, it smacks as a cheap way to get free coders for a
> REALLY BIG company.


To be clear: Google is not selling Android, does not make money off of
people using the Android platform, and does not own Android.  They just
happen to be spending a lot of money to pay many engineers to work on
Android, producing a lot of code that everyone else can freely use.

-- 
Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
hack...@android.com

Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on public
forums, where I and others can see and answer them.

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