Hello Jason, I would be glad to. Let me give you a simple example that does not quite fit but should give you an approximate idea of what I mean.
Gold mining is an "open" activity. Anyone can go and look for gold. An entire mythology has grown reinforcing the dream that ANYONE can go and get rich looking for and finding gold. In fact, there have been a few (very very few) individuals that have struck the proverbial gold mine. However, for the vast majority of humanity, gold mining is completely out of reach. In fact, gold mining is very big business. As I said, this is a very small and imperfect example. To further clarify, the keywords are scale and resources. It does not matter how "open" something in theory is. Ultimately, if the scale and resources are not there, it will die or, live in a very small niche. By the way, ever heard of the word sycophant? Perhaps, I am being too harsh but whenever I read these postings, that word comes to mind. I am puzzled by the number of individuals that rise in the (aggressive) defense of Google and its employees, as if they needed to be defended, and don't do a good enough job of defending themselves as regularly proven by Dianne. Google and Android are not "causes". They are a company and a product. The packaging may be a little different, and updated, but ultimately Google is not and cannot be any different from, say, IBM, Apple, Microsoft and Oracle. And, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Alex Donnini On Dec 10, 3:57 pm, Jason Proctor <jason.android.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Claiming, as some do, that Android is open and anyone can go and > >implement his/her own distribution is somewhat disingenuous. I will > >let you figure out why it is. > > well people *have* created their own distributions, so why don't you > go ahead and tell me why it's disingenuous to claim that it's > possible? > > (btw, i have no connection with Google and IMHO Android is great but > in no way perfect. but claiming that it's not open when the source is > right there, well...) > > -- > jason.vp.engineering.particle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
