Twitter says absence of Rubin 'openness' tweet a bug
updated 07:55 pm EST, Thu December 29, 2011
Twitter says Rubin post deletion a bug
Twitter has followed up beliefs that Google's Andy Rubin deleted his Android 'open' update by noting that it was a bug. The messaging service had lost his original post, a response to MG Siegler said, and returned it once the bug had been fixed. A "small percentage" of other posts had also been lost and recovered, Twitter communications veteran Carolyn Penner said.
The flaw was a first for Twitter and left even the company unclear what had happened until some time later.
Siegler, and Electronista, apologize for the initial suspicions.
The post is ironically now somewhat incorrect, since the command-line code is now referencing a Git repository that has been moved and no longer works. Some concerns about Google's sincerity about openness still exist. Google selectively withholds source code and lets carriers as well as hardware makers close the OS as much as they want.
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Andy Rubin is pretty much my #1 reason for disliking Google. He's got this really smug look on his face in all his photos, and every time I hear him say anything he sounds like that kid from the playground who was smart enough to know he was smart, but was too dumb to get that telling other people you're smart all the time is a lousy way to make friends.
Apple has never positioned themselves as an Open Source company, but has created projects when it made sense and sometimes open sourced things just for the heck of it. Google on the other hand with Android keeps talking about Android as if it's open, but at the same time always helping the carriers exploit their customers in ways that Apple would never put up with. I'd much sooner take a closed system where I'm not my carriers b****, then an open one where I'm constantly getting a a hot poker shoved up my a**.