( WIRED ) -- Android chief Andy Rubin took to the blogs Wednesday evening to combat recent reports of Google clamping down on Android 's openness . `` We continue to be an open source platform and will continue releasing source code when it is ready , '' wrote Rubin on the Android Developer Blog . `` As I write this the Android team is still hard at work to bring all the new Honeycomb features to phones . As soon as this work is completed , we 'll publish the code . This temporary delay does not represent a change in strategy . '' Google has championed its platform as the open alternative to Apple 's closed iOS system . That openness has been called into question recently , as Google has yet to release the Honeycomb source code to all developers and manufacturers . Honeycomb is Android 's first tablet-optimized software release . Rubin cites the difference in form factor between tablets and phones as the reason Google has n't released Honeycomb 's source code to device manufacturers and developers . Motorola is the exception : The company 's Honeycomb-fueled Xoom tablet has been on the market for more than a month , which makes Google 's decision to hold the code from wide release a bit mystifying . Members of the Android industry showed faith in Google , however . `` They say they 're going to release it , I 'm not gon na call them liars , '' Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin told WIRED.com in an interview . The Android OS is based on a version of the Linux OS , which has been an open source , collaborative platform since its release decades ago . Rubin 's post also addressed questions raised in a recent Bloomberg story about Android 's level of control over its partners . Bloomberg wrote : . Over the past few months , according to several people familiar with the matter , Google has been demanding that Android licensees abide by `` non-fragmentation clauses '' that give Google the final say on how they can tweak the Android code -- to make new interfaces and add services -- and in some cases whom they can partner with . Rubin combats this claim directly , stating Google 's so-called `` anti-fragmentation program has been in place since Android 1.0 , '' citing a list of compatibility requirements manufacturers must adhere to in order to market a device as `` Android-compatible . '' He 's referring to Android 's compatibility test suite , or CTS , an automated litmus test to measure whether or not a piece of hardware can claim to run Android . `` Our approach remains unchanged : There are no lock-downs or restrictions against customizing UIs , '' wrote Rubin . Motorola vouches for Rubin 's statement . `` In the time since we 've started working with Google , our relationship has matured , but it is n't any more limiting than it ever has been , '' Christy Wyatt , Motorola 's VP of mobile software development , told Wired.com . `` I do n't believe that anything has changed in the CTS since the beginning . '' Finally , Rubin emphatically denied other rumors of ARM-chipset standardization in the platform , much of which arose in the wake of an anonymously sourced DigiTimes story . `` There are not , and never have been , any efforts to standardize the platform on any single chipset architecture , '' Rubin wrote . With the Nexus One , Google 's first flagship phone , the company worked with Qualcomm to install its 1-GHz Snapdragon ARM processors in the HTC-manufactured handsets . The subsequent Nexus S came equipped with Samsung 's 1-GHz Hummingbird processor , which is also based on ARM architecture . It 's out of character for Rubin and Android to post such a defensive update . Rumors circulating in the media are usually given a brusque `` no comment '' by Google 's communications team . But the title of Rubin 's post -- `` I think I 'm having a Gene Amdahl moment '' -- explains it all . Amdahl coined the acronym FUD ( fear , uncertainty and doubt ) in 1975 . After leaving IBM to form his own IT company , Amdahl claimed he suffered attacks by IBM sales staff attempting to undermine his new venture . All of this negative attention is n't good for Android 's `` open '' image , and maybe that 's what overcame Rubin 's reluctance to speak : too much FUD about Android 's future . Whether or not this FUD is warranted , however , remains to be seen . Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $ 1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT ! Click here ! Copyright 2010 Wired.com .
Google has championed its platform as the open alternative to Apple 's closed iOS system . Honeycomb is Android 's first tablet-optimized software release . Rubin emphatically denied other rumors of ARM-chipset standardization in the platform .