{"id":1261,"date":"2009-09-25T20:58:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2009-09-25T21:22:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T20:22:20","slug":"the-first-one-to-sue-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"The first one to Sue, Loses!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Google has showed their true <a href=\"http:\/\/www.android.com\/\">Android <\/a> colors as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackinthebox.org\/index.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=33183\"> Google has just slapped Cyanogen with a cease-and-desist letter<\/a>  By demonstrating that Android is really NOT <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_source\"> Open Source<\/a> it makes my decision a bit easier. Palm Pre (WebOS), or Nokia N900 (Maemo). Of the two, only Maemo is still considered Open Source, however Palm WebOS has never pretended to be Open Source either. Android always had the feel of Google Lock-in functionality with the real intention to permanently lock the Android platform into Google. And this Cease-and-Desist is the final straw.  More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/09\/24\/google-hits-android-rom-modder-with-a-cease-and-desist-letter\/\">here! <\/a> <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Google has showed their true Android colors as Google has just slapped Cyanogen with a cease-and-desist letter By demonstrating that Android is really NOT Open Source it makes my decision a bit easier. Palm Pre (WebOS), or Nokia<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1261\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The first one to Sue, Loses!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,80,71,62],"tags":[696,698,711,690,683],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-nokia","category-palm","category-telecommunications","tag-android","tag-google","tag-n900","tag-nokia","tag-palm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}