Android System [à la] Redhat With Open Source Java! SUN Proposal : Geemodo

Android Java SUN Oracle and Google http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
These patent law suits are digging up many things and among dirt, sometimes there are gems. Like the one Google bosses lost or chose to decline or laugh at. During the forming of Android, Andy Rubin expressed the value of Java to Android and his discussions with SUN and Schwartz excitement over the Redhat like Android with Open Source Java tells a big story.
But the biggest fact is that Google or some at the top decided that licensing Java for $100 million a year was ridiculous and now may have to pay for the short sightedness
Geemodo: Oracle - Google Android Lawsuit Surfacing Interesting Facts. Open Source Java!

Andy Rubin To Stever Jobs, Come Down To Earth, and Make!

#Arubin ( @arubin ) To #SteverJobs, Come Down To Earth, and Make! http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Man I love these little escapades. I think Mr. Jobs got his mojo up, way up, about Android Market Share and all those made to fit in your hand Android Tablets, and he got an axe to grind (may be he is really mad about those Androids pissing on Apple. Perhaps he is a but upped also by the Apples cash reserve, which is somewhere in 20 Billion mark. If that is the case I would hate to listen to him when he hit 100 Billion mark!
But Steve Jobs has been shouting “Open versus closed is a smokescreen,” but I wonder if he forgot about the OS, that powers iOS and other MACs. He went on to say “Google likes to characterize Android as open and iOS as closed. We think this is disingenuous.”
Well I love the answer given by Andy Rubin of Android fame, has shown how to answer best,  and I guess, how to keep composure by giving the answer in his Tweet, shown above and below;.

the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make”

Way to go Andy, and Android! @Arubin is at about 7000 follower mark now and I would like to see what it would be later in the day! Yes all of us are following Andy!
Refined? because, the first thing I thought was;

Techcrunch

“the world doesn’t need another platform (Windows Phone 7).” Android chief Andy Rubin

#Android chief Andy Rubin http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
“Android is free and open; I think the only reason you create another platform is for political reasons,” were the words of Andy Rubin, the Android chief! He was speaking to PC Magazine regarding the Android and the mobile market in general.
But Microsoft's Steve Balmer say no! "“It’s not like Android’s free, Android has a patent fee You do have to license patents.” a few days ago and sighted HTC / Microsoft agreement (“Microsoft Corp. and HTC Corp. have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for HTC’s mobile phones running the Android mobile platform” ) as an example. Microsoft is also trying to set another example with Motorola, Microsoft is suing Motorola over Android Phones. The major difference, HTC is making windows phone and Motorola does not, at least until next year.
Like Techcrunch, we too think Ballmer is playing politics and hoping to scare OEM's into Windows 7 phone platform (I wish they would come with a shorter more appealing name for this BSOD)

Rubin went on to say why Google and Android is different from restricted phones like iphone and does not make sense windows 7 phone systems. He concluded the interview with;

"The back end part of that, the services that the actual cloud offers, Google has been in that business since day zero. Search was the first thing, and then Gmail, and YouTube, and Google Talk and everything else. So those cloud-enabled services actually give the device a better experience because the cloud is doing the heavy lifting. The cloud is humming away with unlimited bandwidth, acting on your behalf"

PC Magazine