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>>colone+(OP)
So this is effectively the "Oracle Solaris" moment of Android, but without changing ownership?

Nice. While Android was not open source for a long time, at least it's not openwashed anymore.

>>bayind+Lh
> While Android was not open source for a long time

What do you mean by this? Maybe you couldn't get your contributions in, but you could fork Android any time.

>>dotanc+Vk
It was closed-source for the entirety of Android 3.x “Honeycomb”, the tablet-only Android version that introduced Holo on the Motorola XOOM etc. Source code for 3.x was retroactively made available when 4.0 resumed its open-sourceness:

https://groups.google.com/g/android-building/c/T4XZJCZnqF8

>>3235926

> This release includes the full history of the Android source code tree, which naturally includes all the source code for the Honeycomb releases. However, since Honeycomb was a little incomplete, we want everyone to focus on Ice Cream Sandwich. So, we haven't created any tags that correspond to the Honeycomb releases (even though the changes are present in the history.)