who cares if they are bribing the developers ! what i would like to see is some really powerful features getting built into my mobile. I have listed some powerful features here http://paresh.taleda.in/blog/2007/11/21/android-challenge-ideas-for-apps/
"If it's so open, how come there's a trademark immediately after the word Android?"

Same reason that Linus T trademarked "Linux" (which, when I last checked, was considered Open Source): so that the name can't be misappropriated, or competing products "passed off" using its name or variants of it.
I think the main news is that Android's SDK is available. The $10m prize fund is a sweetener, intended to motivate entrepreneurial programmers and aspiring entrants to an otherwise relatively closed market.

The presence of trademarks does not prevent Android's platform from being Open Source at all. Please peruse the multivariant licenses approved by the OSI if you need any proof.
who cares if they are bribing the developers ! what i would like to see is some really powerful features getting built into my mobile. I have listed some powerful features here http://paresh.taleda.in/blog/2007/11/21/android-challenge-ideas-for-apps/
"If it's so open, how come there's a trademark immediately after the word Android?"

Same reason that Linus T trademarked "Linux" (which, when I last checked, was considered Open Source): so that the name can't be misappropriated, or competing products "passed off" using its name or variants of it.
http://code.google.com/android/download.html
there is sdk two days old!
I think the main news is that Android's SDK is available. The $10m prize fund is a sweetener, intended to motivate entrepreneurial programmers and aspiring entrants to an otherwise relatively closed market.

The presence of trademarks does not prevent Android's platform from being Open Source at all. Please peruse the multivariant licenses approved by the OSI if you need any proof.