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 is a mobile operating system (OS) currently developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.ndroid's kernel is based on one of the Linux kernel 's long-term support (LTS) branches. Since April 2014, Android devices mainly use versions 3.4 or 3.10 of the Linux kernel.