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Facebook Google Android: military uses

The choice of license very permissive Apache 2.0 Google Android was intentional: it was to allow the widest use system as possible without imposing any real constraint to those who adopt it. They may in particular make owner: changes should not necessarily be returned to the community as required by the licenses "viral" GPL type.

The goal: to better serve strategy of "hegemony" slow Google to have adopting the broader market,

So we had a port netbook then PC (fairly predictable), then microwave oven and washing machine before reaching television and cars.

is happening today in an area that was certainly not in the plans: Raython, the U.S. military manufacturer, announces today that it is testing applications and hardware to equip the soldier Android on the battlefield in order to:

• provide access to live satellite images of the Patriot system anti.missiles to locate the best enemies. It would be up to recognize faces or read license plates in urban guerrillas
• to announce the detection of enemies and their location in the theater of operation: a kind of Latitude profit but rather anti-social ...

blinkered Access to the source code and the license chosen by Google is clearly the catalyst for these applications, the manufacturer saves tens of millions of dollars on software development but is taking no chances of survival as it is in full owner Heritage programs used. One of joys of Open Source ....

This is also another example of a trend that materializes increasingly in recent years: a reverse flow of innovation. Before, it was the first soldier who innovated with its abundant funds, the industrial world then resumed its products for its own purposes before putting them in the consumer world. Now it seems that this trend is reversed more often : just look at the number of technologies and services used by the company that emerged in the consumer world!

Source: Media & Blog Tech (by Didier Durand)