On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my conclusion: > the human hand was designed to also unclench its fist, open its palm, > and give and receive. > a closed proprietary paradigm won't make a digital handheld in the age > of freedom. > > apple hubris all over again. > except this time, the world has learnt its lessons > even if apple hasn't. > thus we'll be wary of microsoft-like predatory greed, > and embrace muft and mukt paradigms instead. > I have some concerns about the open-ness of android. I've been reading that barring the kernel part, most of the things developed over it are licensed under ASL (Apache Software License). And this means that companies can take it, modify it and release the product still as closed source. Moreover I just read a blog post by someone today who compared Android not to linux but a glorified java run time (and that too, one that departs from the standards), and I tend to agree as of now (from the limited exposure i have with android, i must add as a disclaimer). ---------------------- I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, U can't prove anything - Bart Simpson http://blog.shantanugoel.com http://tech.shantanugoel.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
