Shocker: Google document proposes giving Motorola time-to-market advantage(fosspatents.blogspot.com)
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Shocker: Google document proposes giving Motorola time-to-market advantage
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/09/shocker-for-android-oems-google.html
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The fact that Google develops Android in private and only pushes the changes to a public repo after it's finished is well-known. There are open-source purists (of which I am not) who shake their fists over this behavior, but it's been an observable trend since Android first launched.
And as a corollary to that, we've also known explicitly that each release of Android is given to one OEM first to launch a halo device, and then opened up to other OEM's only afterwards.
So...people predisposed to dislike Google's stance on Android are already well-acquainted with this information, and people predisposed to support Google's stance have already accepted this behavior.