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Android Source Code Gone For Good?
First time accepted submitter vyrus128 writes "Many people were upset at the revelation, reported here in May, that the Honeycomb version of Android would not be open sourced. But Google promised that the next version, Ice Cream Sandwich, would have full source available. Now that ICS is out, though, the source is nowhere in sight. In the thread, Android's Jean-Baptiste Queru offers the following, as to the question of whether source will ever be made available: 'At the moment I don't have anything to say on that subject.'"
http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/c73c14f9b0dcd15a?pli=1
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More precisely, everything after 2.3 is up in the air. When 3.0 was released, we were promised source code for 3.1. Then 3.1 was released, and it was - "no, we've changed our numbering scheme so 3.1 is actually a minor update to 3.0, and what we previously called 3.1 will actually be 4.0". Now 4.0 is out, and Google are being very evasive about the question of source code. My guess is that the partners have become more powerful, and convinced Google that they should have a competitive advantage over the clone manufacturers in China. We might see the Honeycomb source soon, but I wouldn't expect ICS source at least until Jelly Roll is in the hands of Samsung, HTC, Motorola and Sony Ericcson.
Google has said all along: "We plan to release the source for the recently-announced Ice Cream Sandwich soon, once it’s available on devices."
What's with all the Android-baiting on Slashdot lately? Did Microsoft buy some more advertising?
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
CyanogenMod 9. They're skipping 8 because 8 was supposed to be for Honeycomb.
Well, I hope the Cyanogenmod project continues. Steve Kondik is now working for Samsung: what that will do to his priorities (and to what is actually allowed to do on CMx) is hard to say. I hope it goes on: that one project has advanced the state-of-the-Android-art considerably. For the past couple of years, I won't even consider a device that I can't root and put my CM on.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Why is it anti-Android sentiments are assumed to be the product of Microsoft?
You notice nobody at Slashdot is discussing the OS itself?
Despite other commentators recognizing that a new release of the most popular smartphone OS in the world is a big event, and that the new version is a significant improvement, all the discussion here is about what Microsoft has said about it, or more lame versions of the long-running trolling over source code.
Meanwhile, this is what the real world is saying:
"Android ICS offers a massive array of improvements over its predecessors bringing the best of both Gingerbread and Honeycomb while providing a raft of new innovations."
http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-everything-you-need-to-know-954464
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Right, or in the words of Matias Duarte "On Honeycomb we cheated, we cut the corner of all that smaller device support. That’s the sole reason we haven’t open sourced it."
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