Comments on: Open systems https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/07/01/open-systems/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:04:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Joe "Floid" Kanowitz https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/07/01/open-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-26064 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:04:22 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=2906#comment-26064 The Wired article on Android was pretty good, and did a good job of making the case for systems “open” to the extent that personal computers have been “open” (anyone can attempt to run a binary).

I was going to make note that Dalvik and some components weren’t going to be open-source, but apparently I missed the news that they *are* attempting to harmonize “everything,” where everything seems to at least encompass Dalvik, under the Apache 2.0 license.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=579
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28mobile_phone_platform%29#Criticism

[That’s the version of the Apache license that OpenBSD rejected, but even if it’s not BSD-compatible it’s still a lot better than complete proprietariness.]

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