Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb code

Google says that it will not be publishing the source code of Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb, in the foreseeable future. The troubling move further erodes Android's openness and will be detrimental to community-driven Android tablet modding efforts.

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[brianjwd]

It's simple. They released an early version honeycomb to select hardware vendors they are working with to help develop honeycomb. When it's complete. They will clean it up, package it up and give it up. It's that simple. This happens in open-source projects all the time. Development is done internally, then released to public in stages. Even if you try to look at it from a negative way which is they are just holding it in, to make a profit or to have a strong hold of a tablet market (which is pretty much dominated by Apple). The fact is this, the source will be open.