Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by oblio 205 days ago
> Was "Android" the way you define it ever open?

Yes. Initially all the core OS components were OSS.

1 comments

> Yes. Initially all the core OS components were OSS.

Are you saying they "un-open sourced" things? Because that hasnt happened. Just beacuse a piece of code is open source doesnt mean additional services need to be open source as well.

vscode core is open source, but MS maintains closed-source stuff that builds on top of vscode. That doesnt mean vscode isnt open source anymore.