Google ''Not Ready'' to Release Honeycomb Code

[JMcEntegart]

Google has said it’s not ready to release the source code for it’s tablet-optimized version of Android, Honeycomb.

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[sabot00]

But can it play Crysis?

 

[Guest]

sabot00 FFS really!

 

[JOSHSKORN]

[citation][nom]sabot00[/nom]But can it play Crysis?[/citation]
uber fail.

Anyway, I bet that they're waiting until Honeycomb reaches the mobile market, which according to wikipedia, will be this summer. That is, Q3 2011.

 

[Guest]

@sabot00

:facepalm:

 

[Guest]

They're just trying to get Honeycomb worked back into Android instead of releasing a separate tablet specific OS which would cause more confusion.

Not a big deal despite what some would like us to believe.

 

[RodolfoKSP]

“We have no idea if it will even work on phones," yes you have, on the HTC HD2

 

[jhansonxi]

[citation][nom]sabot00[/nom]But can it play Crysis?[/citation]
If it supports Wine then it can (if the hardware is fast enough).

 

[Guest]

Android isn't as free(libre) and open as Linux was meant to be, but OTOH, it's a helluva lot more free and open than Windows or OSX ever will be. So, credit where credit is due, Google is a much better company than MS or Apple.

 

[scrumworks]

This is open source by Google.

 

[nebun]

google is becoming greedy 🙁 so sad

 

[scuba dave]

[citation][nom]nacho_libre[/nom]Android isn't as free(libre) and open as Linux was meant to be, but OTOH, it's a helluva lot more free and open than Windows or OSX ever will be. So, credit where credit is due, Google is a much better company than MS or Apple.[/citation]

What world do you live in where the defining characteristic of a "much better company" is based on whether something is "free and open", or, at least in Google's case "free and pseudo-open"?

Such a ridiculous statement. The only thing they can possibly be given, in regards to "credit", is that they made a product that some people will like, and that they managed to whip up a media-frenzy, and that even more people will swallow the hogwash that is Google's claim that Android, and Honeycomb, are "Open Source".

That is all.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]scuba dave[/nom]The only thing they can possibly be given, in regards to "credit", is that they made a product that some people will like, and that they managed to whip up a media-frenzy, and that even more people will swallow the hogwash that is Google's claim that Android, and Honeycomb, are "Open Source". That is all.[/citation]
So Android is not open source?

 

[Guest]

scuba_dave: the importance of companies like Google that support open source is:

1. GPL/LGPL/Apache/Public Domain licenses: If some evil dick-headed company like Oracle buys google, the community has a right to fork the current source code and create their own version, free of the stupidity being imposed by the owner du jour. This happened to Open Office after Oracle bought Sun, now we have a fork called LibreOffice.

2. The ability to compile your own sources: Google gets a bad rap for privacy, and admittedly, they do collect an awful lot of your personal information, but they always give you the ability to opt-out or not use their service. MS collects as much or more information, and their "proprietary-or-GTFO" business model only serves to cultivate such shady backdoor dealings as NSAKEY, which you cannot opt out of. Atleast if I distrust the Android binaries, I can review them and compile my own.


Hopefully, Ubuntu for ARM will eventually contain the necessary telephony stack to be a smartphone OS that's more in the spirit of FOSS that Android. In the mean time, Android is a far better choice than iOS or WP7, for those who aren't complete tech-illiterate lemmings.

 

[boltimuss]

"...The only thing they can possibly be given, in regards to "credit", is that they made a product that some people will like, and that they managed to whip up a media-frenzy ..."

Isn't that what Apple has done?

 

[cookoy]

just wondering, do HTC, Motorola, Samsung etc who use the Google source codes, also make their modified source codes available to the public?

 

[herpity]

^ No idea why you would want them...

 

[seboj]

@cyanogen "I think Google is doing the right thing by not releasing 3.0 source, because it's probably a pile of nasty hacks."

Cyanogen (of CyanogenMod fame) sums it up pretty well.

 

[rebturtle]

That's a lot of crossed fingers

 

[sudeshc]

GOOGLE is holding it up just to earn................
or may be its developers are so dumb that they dont know what they developed.

 

[sudeshc]

ohh no is Google going the same path Apple choose years back....

 

[skittle]

[citation][nom]cookoy[/nom]just wondering, do HTC, Motorola, Samsung etc who use the Google source codes, also make their modified source codes available to the public?[/citation]

Yes. Samsung just dropped froyo for the galaxy line. (march 24th)

[citation][nom]herpity[/nom]^ No idea why you would want them...[/citation]
Need the manufacturer source if you want third party rom...

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]google is becoming greedy so sad[/citation]
Becoming?

 

[K33]

Google may not have 'released it' , but it is 'open source'... It is already in the wild if you want a copy. I had a quick look in XDA-Developers. Here is a quote from almost two months ago, "some sites speculate since its based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core CPU that it will be the minimum." This might well be why Google are holding it. They may be waiting for the imminent release of two core phones.

 

[hannibal]

The most propably reason are "nasty" UI hacks that some phone companies have done, and so prevented users to update to new and better version os android to their phone... Baybe they try to release an version where you can upgrade the motor (os) and leave the User interface intact, so all Android users can upgrade their phones, without wainting if some lazy phone maker will ever upgrade their version of Android (to older phone models... Any happy Samsung users in this forum that still wait their os update...