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| Google Opens Up Android Codebase                                   |
|   from the now-even-more-open-sourced dept.                        |
|   posted by timothy on Tuesday October 21, @13:00 (Cellphones)     |
|   http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/21/1622200 |
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[0]rsk writes “It’s official: Google has [1]Open Sourced Android. The
source code can be downloaded from [2]Android’s Git repository. Bugs are
handled at the [3]Google Code Android project page with [4]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 [5]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 [1]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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Links:
0. mailto:riyad.kalla [Email address: riyad.kalla #AT# breakitdownblog.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.breakitdownblog.com/google-open-sources-android/
2. http://source.android.com/download
3. http://code.google.com/p/android
4. http://source.android.com/documentation
5. http://source.android.com/license