Google's smartphone code is often described as 'open' or 'free' – but when examined by the Free Software Foundation, it starts to look like something different
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lozz
13 years 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago
GNU(less)/Linux
Google should have named Android 3, "Iron Wall", or, "Bitter Gall", rather than, "Honeycomb". There's nothing sweet about it.
Yet another reason to distrust Google's commitment to software freedom.
Lanadapter
13 years 2 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago
Wait, what?
Since when did google make a commitment to software freedom?
They're much better than MS to be sure, but they've always made some tainted software here and there. Plus they have flash bundeled with chrome, a move clearly not aligned with the values of the free software movement.