Android And Open Source
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Why Android grow up so quickly?
Android is Open Source.
What is Source?
What is Open Source?
How does Open Source software grows?
Android really benifited from Open Source?
What is Source?
source = clearly described idea
Automatically translate
to a program
What is Open Source?
• Source of a software should be
open to anyone and any way of
using.
• Came up in 1998 when Netscape
released source of its navigator(浏
览器).
• It is known as firefox nowaday
Icon of Netscape
Eric S. Raymond
One of Open Source
Creators
Old navigator is loading
Program is machine-friendly
Programmer gets nothing
Read
Program
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Nothing
^_^
I can
understand~
Programmers
read source
and get idea
Read
Source
Get
Idea
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Get
Idea
First version
Someone improve it
Better versionmore user
More improverBetter
version
Android and Open Source
• First version(1.0) of android is not good
enough
• But world-wide programmers try to
improve it.
• Now, every day android gets benefits from
Android Open Source Project.
• For detail you can check here
The Fact of Open Source
• Scientists publish articles and share ideas
• Open Source share ideas of how jobs can
be done by computable machines.
• Open Source is just an reflection of
academic tradition.