Raleigh, NC
Travis Kepley is a Senior Instructor at Red Hat where he helps employees, partners and customers understand how Open Source Software can create a better IT and business infrastructure. Travis started at Red Hat in January of 2008 as a Technical Support Engineer before becoming a Solutions Architect prior to moving to his current role. Travis graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and now lives in Raleigh with his wife and dog. When not extolling the virtues of open source, Travis is found fishing as well as playing and recording music.
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It would make moot a lot of the points (valid as some are) that Apple has given. However there is a lot of thought that has to be put into that solution. Google has always set themselves up for criticism with the 'Do No Evil' slogan. So they'd have to be careful with how things are certified and the like, we already know how critical people have been of Apple and their denial of certain apps. But even so, a stamp of approval for apps would go a long way to making the system seem to be a lot more coherent.
Google is sticking to their original guns. The latest tweet from Andy Rubin of Google shows this: http://twitter.com/Arubin#
(for those that might miss it due to new tweets appearing, it goes like 'the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"')
It's a very geeky way to get across to Apple that they cannot out-open true open source. I think one thing that is missed in this article is the points that Jobs does indeed attempt to defend the lack of openness with each keynote and speech he delivers about his platform. This blog about the latest Rubin tweet lays it out pretty nicely: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/10/19/google-exec-tweets-to-tell-jobs-what-open-is/?blog_id=100&post_id=18999
All said, it simply makes me happy to see the likes of Linux and Git used to prove points on executive levels in public forums. To think that Open is just a grassroots only thing anymore is hardly possible with battles like this waging. It's very cool to say the least.