Lawyer hits out at Google's open source efforts-TechEye

A Professor has hit out at the way Google is controlling the Android product say that the outfit is one of the classic mistakes of those who try to controls on open source.

Eben Moglen, a professor of law at Columbia Law School and the Director of the Software Freedom Law Center, said that Google just the mistakes of the past of other companies that tried to repeat is strict control around the release of their open-source software.

Talk with Business Week, said Moglen companies that experience teaches that expose the code to the community more than it hurts you helps.

He thinks that Google does not, however, the memo about that one. It has device makers of his change in plans with the honeycomb incarnation of Android.

It seems likely that Google will probably wait to make another open source distribution of Android software until the next version called ice is completed.

Android is based on Linux, but Google sticks in many of his own code. But Google has been criticized for making improvements to its products to the needs, but don't put a lot of changes over to the broader open source community.

When it's done, it has received praise for her efforts. The framework for a new kind of data analytical system, called Hadoop, has wide adoption by large Web companies and the traditional companies.

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