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It's very difficult to not have the opportunity to become a millionaire. For example I could have bought a lottery ticket and won the lottery. But I didn't. Likewise, Google hasn't published the Honeycomb source yet.

Also, it is strictly logic, you can follow everything from a false statement (false => anything). So, if Google had released the source for Honeycomb I could have been a millionaire is a strictly true statement.




I think you'll agree that it's much more likely that we'd had Android 3.0 on phones if they released the source code, than that you'd become a millionaire if you bought a lottery ticket. After all, people have done that to previous open source Android releases, I can even install the latest Android release on my iPhone.


What point are you trying to prove?


I think he's trying to prove he doesn't understand logic. You can prove anything from contradictory true statements not from false ones.


Contradictory true statements? Is that some kind of quantum logic? Maybe I am too old fashioned for that, I admit defeat.


That the discussion is complete BS.




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