Will the Motorola gamble hurt open source

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It won't hurt open source unless it deserves it.

Motorola won't and isn't the only Android player. Assuming the G1, the others, take off and do well, but Motorola doesn't, it will be hard to point the finger at Android. If all devices languish under Android (name list of potential problems here) then Android may be the root cause, hurting Google/Android and indirectly hurting open source in general.

I would assume a couple of things though. First, Motorola investigated and tried Android and sees a reason to move away from Symbian, and we know Google has a lot of resources and developer excitement is building, so I am not really concerned it won't be successful (Android, not motorola, lol)

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