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Everybody wants to make their own tablet these days. Heads turned last year when BlackBerry announced it would be making the PlayBook. Then Hewlett-Packard got in on the act with the TouchPad. Samsung has three lines of tablets in the pipe. HTC already has two with more coming. Asus, Acer, LG, Lenovo and even (gasp) Microsoft are working out tablet strategies. Hey, TechCrunch once had a tablet in the works. So, why not video game retailer GameStop?

GameStop announced this morning through industry site GameIndustry.biz (login required) that it is in the process of picking an existing Android tablet to ship as a "GameStop certified gaming platform." While this seems like an odd move, there are a variety of reasons that this might actually be a really smart move by GameStop.

The worst CEOs in tech, OpenStack announcements from HP, and rumors about Google Dart are all in this ReadWriteWeb channels wrap-up.

Steve Jobs may have been the best tech CEO ever, but the worst is open to debate. Last week, we also looked at L-Soft Listserv turning 25, and how many Android devices still run Froyo. After the jump, you'll find more of this week's top stories on ReadWriteWeb's channels.

Scott Fulton's earlier post, What's This I Hear About Proprietary Open Source?, raised some interesting points about most people's idea of open sourced software. How open is open enough? If a project is closed to the public, can it really be called an open source project?

We asked and you answered and we culled your responses from the original post on ReadWriteWeb, Twitter and Facebook and used Storify to present it all back to you. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.

In our continuing tradition of rounding up new mobile application releases we found interesting and/or exciting over the past month, we present you with this new list of apps for August 2011. Last month there were some interesting iOS apps and updates along with some dynamic Android apps.

The list, as always, is a bit subjective so please let us know in the comments if we missed an app or you have found one that you cannot live without.

Correct me if I'm wrong, folks: The whole concept of open source software implies a certain business relationship between all of its participants. By definition, not by presumption, all parties in the development process agree that all of their intellectual products are both sharable and shared with the rest of the world.

Nothing that is used in an open source product should be proprietary, or for the exclusive benefit of any one party for any length of time. And no part of an open source product will have been taken from someone else who did not intend to share it, or who did not license it to be shared.

Analyst firm Research2Guidance studied download numbers for all the major mobile apps stores and it has some choice words for Apple and Android - they are over hyped.

Research2Guidance says that the results from its second quarter 2011 smartphone application monitoring report indicate that applications published on the "lesser" app stores (Windows Phone Marketplace, BlackBerry App World, OVI Store) generate significantly more downloads compared to the Apple App Store. It is a gutsy statement to call Apple and Android "over-hyped" but Research2Guidance does make an interesting point.

In a legal filing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco this morning, a copy of which was obtained from Oracle by RWW, attorneys for Oracle Corp. tell the judge in the ongoing infringement lawsuit against Google that it's willing to reopen negotiations for a settlement. Minutes ago, Google responded to that notice by telling the court it's willing to make executives available for settlement talks.

These events after documents filed yesterday in the case, and first uncovered by journalist Florian Mueller, reveal internal Google strategy briefings where it was suggested that Android should be developed on a course that appears to be open source, but actually is not. Instead, the documents from mid-2009 suggest, preferential treatment should be given specifically to Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless for being the first to develop Android phones to Google specifications.

In an effort to capture growing mobile traffic, The Guardian has launched a versatile native Android app. The app is free and ad-supported for all users, but it offers some powerful and distinguishing features.

It displays full-screen photo galleries and audio and video content in addition to text articles. It enables browsing by section, topic, or author, and users can save favorites for easy browsing from the app or the phone's home screen. It even allows downloading of the personalized homepage and favorites for offline reading. The feature set reflects a solid understanding of the needs of new media consumers on the part of The Guardian's mobile team, which we've been watching for a long time.

Building an Android version of its popular, filter-based photo sharing app is a "a major priority" for the team at Instagram, CEO Kevin Systrom told the Guardian recently. Indeed, this is one of the most frequently demanded features for the app, which notoriously only works on iOS.

It may be hard to believe, but Instagram hasn't even been around for a year. It launched for iPhone last October and has since enjoyed enormous popularity, ballooning to 1 million users in just 10 weeks. As of June 2011, Instagram had 5 million users and that number keeps on growing. In early August, the startup announced that its app had published over 150 million photos.

The adoption rate of smartphones in the U.S. continues to climb as 40% of mobile phone owners say they own a smartphone, according to new data from Nielsen.

In terms of operating system share, Android is still in the lead. Of those smartphone users, 40% are using Android and 28% are using iOS. These U.S. numbers don't come as a huge surprise, as last month Gartner reported that Android now commands 43.4% of the smartphone market worldwide. We first saw signs of Android taking the top spot in the beginning of this year.