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Comment author: eeuuah 09 April 2014 11:29:48PM 1 point [-]

Device manufacturers that ship certain google apps and code are not generally allowed to ship competitor apps.

This article goes into some detail, the bit about the OHA is on page 3, if I recall correctly.

But to come back to the topic at hand, Google is a company who wants to make money. When releasing something as open source interferes with that mission they won't release something as open source. On the other hand there are plenty of cases where Google supports Open Source.

I think this is one of the concerns that the author of the original post is referring to.

Comment author: ChristianKl 10 April 2014 09:57:30AM 0 points [-]

No, the orginal post pretends that for profit company don't release stuff into the public domain.

The idea that nonprofits simply give all there resources into the public domain is without basis. The Americal Chemical Association which happens to be a non-for-profit sued Wikipedia for violating it's intellectual property by integrating CAS numbers information about chemicals into Wikipedia.

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