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“We decided to take our question to Google and ask them if Augen was allowed to install the Android Market and other core Google apps and a spokesperson responded that ‘Augen included proprietary Google software in their product via an unauthorized vendor. Google only licenses its software to partners and OHA [Open Handset Alliance] members directly,'” Piltch reports. “Why is this a big deal if Android is open source, anyway? As we’ve talked about before, the Google Android OS is open-source, but core Google apps, including the Android Market, are closed source and must be licensed.”
Piltch reports, “We also have to wonder how something with unlicensed and potentially illegal software on it could end up on the shelf at K-Mart. We doubt that any national chain store would stock PCs with a pirated or hacked version of Windows. Google didn’t give us any indication of how they intend to proceed regarding the GenTouch78, but I wouldn’t count on the Market working fully any time soon. And perhaps the tablet will disappear from shelves completely.”
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