The former head of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) at Google has jumped ship to the competition. Jean-Baptiste Quéru announced that he has accepted a job at Yahoo! via his Twitter feed on Tuesday, and the Purple Palace quickly responded with a welcome tweet. Quéru rattled the Android community in August when he made it …

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Tuesday 17th September 2013 19:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
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1. Tuesday 17th September 2013 23:32 GMT Sorry that handle is already taken.
 
 Former! Android! Open! Source! Boss! Takes! Job!...
 
 It looks like this in my RSS client!
 
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 1. Tuesday 17th September 2013 23:34 GMT Sorry that handle is already taken.
 
 Which, I should add, gave me a chuckle. Thanks Reg!
 
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Tuesday 17th September 2013 19:52 GMT LarsG

Must slant ! Must slant !

Noooooooooooooooo ! Stupid iPad

!!!!!!!!! ¡¡¡¡ nope

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1. Tuesday 17th September 2013 22:47 GMT Dan 55
  
  You're looking for a five-byte unicode string!
  
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Tuesday 17th September 2013 20:01 GMT Alan Brown

Can't say I blame him

Linus rants. Other people simply jump off the ship.

Either way, building a "open source" distribution on top of proprietary SoCs is something that _will_ result in the developers for said distributions getting disillusioned and finding somehting else to do.

I doubt Jean-Baptiste Quéru will be the last one to do this.

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1. Tuesday 17th September 2013 20:16 GMT Metrognome
  
  Re: Can't say I blame him
  
  Completely incidentally, the images in question were indeed released about 2 days after the rant. (http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/08/09/google-changes-course-posts-2013-nexus-7-razor-factory-image-and-binaries/)
  
  Make of it what you will but it doesn't change the principle that open source code will stumble on proprietary gear.
  
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  1. Wednesday 18th September 2013 08:29 GMT T. F. M. Reader
    
    Re: Can't say I blame him
    
    Those are system images and binary drivers, not source code...
    
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    1. Wednesday 18th September 2013 10:05 GMT Metrognome
      
      Re: Can't say I blame him
      
      I stand corrected.
      
      I thought the images and binaries were the object of his ire and eventual departure.
      
      I think I got confused by the link provided in the article.
      
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Wednesday 18th September 2013 12:24 GMT Captain Scarlet

Yahoo products

Yahoo has released hundreds of products recently?

When was that?

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1. Friday 20th September 2013 20:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Yahoo products
  
  "Product" means "what the engineers produced this week".
  
  They release a product at roughly the mock-up stage. Then they release the useful and important bits in weekly batches as they are half-ready, then release the fixes for those every week in between. In between denying there's a problem, in between blaming users for not liking change, in between saying removal of features IS a feature.
  
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Friday 20th September 2013 06:38 GMT skeptical i

I don't suppose this gent will be able to fix Yahoogroups, will he?

Still broken, three weeks later.

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