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Android/Linux's Future and Advancement of Mobile Software Freedom
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| But first, let me point out where we agree: I
| think his recent blog post about what
| Android/Linux is not should be read by
| everyone interested in software freedom for
| mobile devices. (Harald's post also refers to
| a presentation by Matt Porter. I agree with
| Harald that talk is worth looking at closely.)
| The primary point Matt and Harald both make is
| one that Stallman has actually made for years:
| Linux is an operating system kernel, not a
| whole system for a user. That's why I started
| saying Android/Linux to refer to this new
| phone platform. It's just the kernel, Linux,
| with a bunch of Java stuff on top. As Matt
| points out, it doesn't even use a common
| Linux-oriented C Library, such as uClibc or
| the GNU C Library; it used a BSD-derived libc
| called Bionic.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2009/nov/04/android-vs-gnu/
Released: Android Media Platform (AMP): OLED Android 2.0 Handheld
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| We know that the Motorola Droid has
| launched today, but it is not the only
| Google Android device launching. We have
| just learned that the Android Media
| Platform (AMP) has popped up out of
| nowhere, for those who do not know, the
| device is an OLED Android 2.0 Handheld.
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http://www.product-reviews.net/2009/11/06/released-android-media-platform-amp-oled-android-20-handheld/
Recent:
âOpen Coreâ Is the New Shareware
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| Like most buzzwords, Open Core has no real agreed-upon
| meaning. I'm using it to describe a business model
| whereby some middleware-ish system is released by a
| single, for-profit entity copyright holder, who
| requires copyright-assigned changes back to the
| company, and that company sells proprietary add-ons
| and applications that use the framework. Often, the
| model further uses the GPL to forbid anyone but the
| copyright-holding company to make such proprietary
| add-on applications (i.e., everyone else would have to
| GPL their applications). In the current debate, some
| have proposed that a permissive license structure can
| be used for the core instead.
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http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/10/16/open-core-shareware.html
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