Είναι το Android πραγματικά ανοιχτό;

Yes. And no. And sort of. When it comes to the cutthroat world of mobile telephony, it's not quite that simple.

When is open source not really open source? When it's an Android phone.

OK, before everyone jumps all over me and screams, "Android is built on Linux!" and "It's more open than the iPhone!" let me say this: Yes, it is built on an open-source platform and it is, indeed, more open than the iPhone.

But in the cutthroat world of mobile telephony, Google may have met its match with old-school behavior from telephone service providers and handset makers who aren't so keen on the "open" part of open-source. The Open Handset Alliance isn't so open, nor is it too much of an alliance among Android device makers. It is about handsets, though, so there's that.

Verizon, one of the biggest cell service providers (and not a member of the Alliance, which says something in itself) is dropping the Nexus One. HTC, which is an Alliance member, isn't sharing the code for its custom Sense UI layer for Android, as would normally be expected in, you know, an open source alliance.

And why is that? Well, apparently, Google's exerting a level of control over the alliance that was described by an unnamed former executive as "oligarchical."

I just read up on the now-infamous blog post by Andreas Constantinou, research director at VisionMobile, where he says paraphrases Henry Ford, saying, "anyone can have Android in their own colour as long as it’s black."

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Κάτι πάει να πει το παραπάνω άρθρο αλλά απλά το ξεκινάει. Οπότε αν είστε από αυτούς που θέλουν να μάθουν την αλήθεια τουλάχιστον τώρα ξέρετε από που να ξεκινήσετε.

Φυσικά τα πράγματα είναι εντελώς ξεκάθαρα γι αυτούς που πραγματικά ξέρουν: Η Google και γενικά ΟΛΕΣ οι εταιρίες, πάνω απ' όλα, εξυπηρετούν τους εαυτούς τους και συγκεκριμένα τους μετόχους τους. Όλα τα άλλα είναι μπλα-μπλα.