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The development process is arguably more open - everything happens in public repositories, many different individuals and companies are involved at all stages, etc. Android does parts of the development in a private tree, see http://source.android.com/faqs.html

Android itself is definitely open-source in a technical sense though, and they share a ton of useful changes back to the kernel and userspace apps that Firefox OS and many other projects use and contribute to as well.



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