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by Karunamon 5004 days ago
An open source project only requires that you can see the code, not that you can see what any one person or team is working on at any given moment.

Calling Google dishonest for making the latest released version of Android available seems disingenuous, at best.
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coliveira 5004 days ago
If you remove the community-based aspect from open source, there is not much of an advantage in it. This idea of regular code-drops seem just like a way of maintaining the minimum requirements to conform to the open source tag.
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makomk 5004 days ago
In fact, many of the FSF's own open source projects had closed-off development processes from the start with only periodic source drops available.
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