Android will remain free for at least five years

As part of the deal with the Chinese government, Google has promised that the Android operating system will remain free and free for at least another five years. In turn, China gave permission to buy Motorola Mobility, Reuters reported .

It is not known why China has set such a condition. It can be assumed that Chinese mobile device manufacturers, who actively use the free Android OS, want to receive business guarantees in the future. Although Google has never given any reason to assume that it is going to close the source code of Android, but always emphasized the open status of this project. Moreover, technically Android is not proprietary to Google: formally, it is being developed by the Open Handset Alliance , where Google is just one of the participants.