The cell is a small, windowless room painted a nondescript beige, with a gun-metal gray floor and concrete sleeping platform.

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Because the code has been licensed under the Eclipse public license rather than the harder-core GPL, device manufacturers will be able to continue to tack on custom features and hardware support without open-sourcing it, which should make them less gun-shy about throwing weight behind the platform -- and considering how badly these guys need to get back into the spotlight, that's a good thing.

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"I want my party to stand for something, " he said, complaining that his colleagues failed to toe the party platform line on issues such as international policy, gun control and abortion.

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