On: Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb

[mturmon]

Here's Andy Rubin's well-known definition of open:

https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429

This ("access to source code") is clearly less than GPL, and that's OK, as other commenters point out.

But what they're offering now with Honeycomb is less than Rubin's definition above.

[lukeschlather → mturmon]

I want the ability to run an arbitrary operating system on hardware that has as effective production and quality control as Motorola's hardware, with the same form-factors. If I can't get that sort of hardware without a locked bootloader for something resembling the same price as Motorola's line, the openness of the code is basically meaningless to me.