HTC making their sense framework open source

HTC is making their sense framework open source. Next to that, they also release a "HTC Opensense SDK". So now you can build apps based on the HTC sense framework.

This has two results.

First of all will all phone makers and invidual users be able to use the Sense interface for their phone, second will all programmers be able to use the framework as extra libraries. The disadvantage is that apps based on the Sense framework will be heavy for those who are not using Sense as their interface. You could compare it with loading up a KDE app when you are on Gnome. The loading of the extra KDE libraries asks a lot of time and a lot of memory. Open sourcing their framework is a good thing, but I don't think they should have made it in the first place. If they wanted extra libraries, they should have written some patches and sent it to main Android developers. What they are doing now is basically forking Android.

This is just my two Sense about the topic.