@casper "I am certain Android attracts engineers over because it's open" - that was my point (warm and fuzzy) and they do this to get engineers to come to Android.
It not like they are opening their search engine code, adWords, Big Table (yes white paper and it been copied), GFS, GWS and any other important code. :) On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Its all about Ad's and money, they don't care if its open or not, they > use > > the "open software" as PR to get people feeling nice warm and fuzzy. > > You throw "they" around very loosely, I am certain Android attracts > engineers over because it's open... follow official guys like Tim Bray > or unofficial guys like Steve Kondik to see that effect. Nobody is > claiming Google does not have financial motives. But at the end of the > day, Android is still the platform that lets me read the source code > if I am curious about how their JIT works or something (http:// > android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a=blob_plain;f=vm/ > compiler/Frontend.c;hb=froyo-release<http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a=blob_plain;f=vm/%0Acompiler/Frontend.c;hb=froyo-release>), > neither iOS nor Windows phone > allows me that. That to me is the spirit of Java (where we have always > had access to the source code of at least the runtime libs). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
