Chinese IT Ministry Looks Askance At Google's Control of Android 118
itwbennett writes "In what one expert is calling a clear message to China's tech industry that the authorities want to support a homegrown mobile operating system, China's tech regulator warns in a white paper that the country is becoming too dependent on Google's Android OS. 'Our country's mobile operating system research and development is heavily reliant on Android,' reads the white paper from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. 'Although the Android system currently remains open source, the core technologies and technology roadmap is strictly controlled by Google.'"
Centralized government to Google (Score:5, Interesting)
Pot, kettle, black.
Nice thing about open source (Score:4, Interesting)
Of course the Chinese might be able to fork some of it, and the Apache licensee lets them do this without giving back. But then, given that 50% Android phones pay a tribute to MS, the Chinese government might get into trouble for being a pirate nation, unless of course they pay tribute to MS>
I had to loook it up... (Score:5, Interesting)
Definition of ASKANCE
1: with a side-glance : obliquely
2: with disapproval or distrust : scornfully
Guess that's the word of the day...