Android ?openness? a myth say researchers

Android‘s much-vaunted “open source” credentials do not mean the OS is “open”, researchers have suggested, finding that Google’s platform is actually severely lacking in comparison to other open-source software. Google’s refusal to release a public roadmap, unilinear development decisions and “closed contributions process model” all leave it behind rivals like MeeGo and Symbian,�VisionMobile�concludes, with Android’s [...]

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