You have no idea what open source means, do you? You ever hear "free as in free speech, not as in free beer"? While developers are welcome to release their applications for free, and most people do (including *Google*), the GNU GPL was written as such that people can still make money off of free software.
What I wonder is whether Google's Android Market (or whatever it ends up being called) will also be available to distributors of free applications, or if it only makes sense in a "developer collects money, Google takes a cut of that" fashion.
Personally, I'm hoping this will be more like a user-friendly package manager with support for non-free(-as-in-beer) software purchases and fully open-source app downloads as well. Imagine something like a hybrid between a software marketplace and, say, the app downloader (which is a rather full-featured package manager) currently available for cracked iPhones.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I kinda dislike the name Store for something that is free. And it better be free.
Lol... free... you dont create a billing system for free apps.
Everyone are off their bloody senses with expectations for android, I'm not...
This is going to be a cash milking cow for google and the makes/cell companies.
lol paying for open sores...
You have no idea what open source means, do you? You ever hear "free as in free speech, not as in free beer"? While developers are welcome to release their applications for free, and most people do (including *Google*), the GNU GPL was written as such that people can still make money off of free software.
Are you getting it now?
Yeah, it would suck to pay for having open sores wouldn't it. I prefer my sores to be free. i save my money for the treatment.
What I wonder is whether Google's Android Market (or whatever it ends up being called) will also be available to distributors of free applications, or if it only makes sense in a "developer collects money, Google takes a cut of that" fashion.
Personally, I'm hoping this will be more like a user-friendly package manager with support for non-free(-as-in-beer) software purchases and fully open-source app downloads as well. Imagine something like a hybrid between a software marketplace and, say, the app downloader (which is a rather full-featured package manager) currently available for cracked iPhones.