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Android Source Code Gone For Good?

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-for-your-eyes dept.

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.'"

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  1. Umm.... by zixxt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/c73c14f9b0dcd15a?pli=1

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  2. Re:Too Early, comes with official update push by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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