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Comment by cremnob

11 years ago

Open always wins, until it conflicts with your business interests. "Open" used to be the oft-repeated advantage over iOS in the early days, I wonder if that will slip away from the narrative like "SD card slots", "removable batteries", and "real keyboard" did.

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batiudrami  11 years ago

I don't see Google making any rules about OEMs not being allowed to manufacture devices with micro SD slots, removable batteries or physical keyboards. Just because Google doesn't want to spend its R&D money on those features doesn't mean they're stopping anyone else who uses Android.

TylerE  11 years ago

History doesn't really support this. Even Linux had to get some corporate backing (initially Red Hat, Suse, and the like), and later Canonical and others before it really took off.

Open source has proven to be a long term survivor, but not a winner.

  • Mikeb85  11 years ago

    Open source is most definitely winning in infrastructure, high performance computing, servers, etc...

    Ask IBM or Oracle if Linux is losing...