ByronM - 9:38 pm on Sep 28, 2009 (gmt 0)

You guys need to read up on the notice. He is only getting trouble for packing the new rom with some closed sourced apps, such as the official Gmail and Google Talk clients.

If i'm not mistaken there is other licensed code that is critical to booting the rom that is also included in the C&D basically making the entire firmware illegal.

Thus the reason he posted on twitter asking if Microsoft, Apple or Palm needed a phone guru ;)

What seems terrible to me is why now? why not before the very same developer incorporated his work on BFS into the android tree? Seems like google waited until they got what they wanted and boom.

Also, the reasons given by google are enough to make any person cringe.. the "we decided to do this because xyz to get google to xyz and made this open for xyz but.. we're protecting our ip".

So yeah, google made an open source project to get free developer time but in the end, they don't REALLY want an open source project to allow developers full access to their system but only to incorporate changes google can use to shove more advertising in your face.