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To: DanD who wrote (92722)	6/24/2010 10:49:02 AM
From: planetsurf	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197244

One added point, Google doesn't have to be the one that builds the lite weight Android. Android is open source so any provider or group of providers can use as much of the source as they want and modify and maintain it. I am sure hobbyists all over the world are working on this stuff to put Android on their existing hardware. That's true and great. But how is that going to get into carriers or kill Brew?? Even if a rogue carrier developed their own version of Android, they would need to develop the ecosystem. And for what end? Before you scoff, that's how Linux started in the first place. Yeah. I wonder if BREW should go open source? That doesn't mean make it free, but since the real money is in the apps and service side, it might be beneficial. There will always be a need for low power/performance devices and phones. I don't know -- maybe. You never know what some motivated hacker in his bedroom might come up with to add a bit to make Brew just a little better. But remember that it's free to develop apps for Brew (the os source is different).