Full disclosure: I grew up in New York City when the drinking age was 18. Of course people were also being drafted at that age into the U.S. military and sent to Vietnam, so there was a certain logic in treating 18 as the official entry into adulthood. Like the New York of my youth, the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) is 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and QuÃ©bec, and 19 in the rest of Canada. The year in which a young person âturns legalâ can be a perilous one.
What is open source? The term open source refers to the availabilty of an application's source code to the general public. Open source licenses typically allow for anyone to work on a project or make works based on a project as long as those changes are provided back to the open source project with similar licensing terms. The Google backed Android OS is a well known example of open source in the cell phone industry.
Android means a few different things â but in the end it's all good! You see the word Android used a lot on the Internet, and it gets used interchangeably for a few different things. I'm not even talking about robots (though some Androids could be running on Android), I'm talking about the mobile platform we all love.oogle maintains an open-source operating system named Android. It's got all the low-level stuff as well as the needed middleware to power and use an electronic device, and it is freely given away to anyone who wants to grab the code and build the operating system from it.