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Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gonna-be-huge-they-figure dept.

svonkie writes "Despite launching on the T-Mobile G1 with little mainstream fanfare, Google Inc.'s Android OS appears to have gained strong interest in the open source development community. According to a survey of Black Duck Software's Knowledge Base, Apple Inc.'s iPhone led the industry with 266 open source project releases during 2008, while Android followed in second place with 191 releases. Black Duck compiled the data after scouring through over 185,000 of open source projects across 4,000 Internet sites."

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  1. steam? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would think an android that gathered methane from would have more of a job to do, especially in the open source community.

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  2. Re:Blackberry love by Tetsujin · · Score: 4, Funny

    There still seems to be a serious lack of Blackberry love from Android.

    Android hasn't gotten its emotion chip yet.

    Now, why it would need an old CPU from a Playstation 2 to understand love is beyond me, but I guess that's just how it works...

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  3. Re:Android X Now Runnnig by Welah · · Score: 5, Funny

    I "agree". Your use of "words" helped me "understand" what you "meant". I, too, would like to "use" my "Android" "phone" as a "constand virtualized telecoms companion".