By launching Android, Google has promised that it would be an open-source project in a community that normally helps to improve it over time. A market research company called VisionMobile decided to study this in depth and promise, when comparing eight major projects with other known open-source, Android is realized that most of them closed.
The company notes assigned to each project according to certain criteria such as type of license used, access and availability of the latest source code, the ability of developers to influence the project, among other things. The projects were analyzed WebKit, Symbian (before becoming closed), Qt, MeeGo, Firefox, Eclipse, Android and the Linux kernel. And after all the bills was made the mobile OS from Google that got the lowest score, with 23%.
The main reasons cited by VisionMobile for the low score of the system were the model of closed process of contribution and the fact that Google make all decisions unilaterally Android. They also say that there is a script for the future of publicly available and that Android Open Handset Alliance does not contribute almost nothing to the project that resulted.
As for the other projects that could well above notes. The more open is the Eclipse development environment multi-language, 84%, followed by the Linux kernel with 71% and 68% with WebKit.
The company notes assigned to each project according to certain criteria such as type of license used, access and availability of the latest source code, the ability of developers to influence the project, among other things. The projects were analyzed WebKit, Symbian (before becoming closed), Qt, MeeGo, Firefox, Eclipse, Android and the Linux kernel. And after all the bills was made the mobile OS from Google that got the lowest score, with 23%.
The main reasons cited by VisionMobile for the low score of the system were the model of closed process of contribution and the fact that Google make all decisions unilaterally Android. They also say that there is a script for the future of publicly available and that Android Open Handset Alliance does not contribute almost nothing to the project that resulted.
As for the other projects that could well above notes. The more open is the Eclipse development environment multi-language, 84%, followed by the Linux kernel with 71% and 68% with WebKit.
