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> hinted at by Google employees in the past, is that much of the code is a kludge unsuitable for publication.

Sounds like their were embarassed about the quality of their code.



It could also be that it takes a very large amount of time to check and verify what can be released as open source code. Reorganizing the code so that proprietary drivers and internal-only APIs are abstracted out can take a very very long time. Even if nothing has to change, the time spent checking for these things was probably better spent working on Ice Cream Sandwich.




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