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Android and the Linux Kernel Community
An anonymous reader links to Greg Kroah-Hartman's explanation of a rift (hopefully mendable) in the development culture of Google's Linux-based Android OS and the Linux kernel itself. "As the Android kernel code is now gone from the Linux kernel, as of the 2.6.33 kernel release, I'm starting to get a lot of questions about what happened, and what to do next with regards to Android. So here's my opinion on the whole matter ..."
Well good on ya! Drop it if you like, or make it into a balmerbot and let it throw chairs at your Linus idol, I don;t really care (but I do want to see the vids though:). Linux is available in a LOT of different flavours. The free BSD's however have much less mind and market-share. Yes you may argue OSX is a BSD variant, but there you have a company that is more evil then google IMHO.
Nobody forced them to built on a linux kernel, they choose that one partially because it was Open and Free. On top of that they built an operating system that they could have kept very closed. (The GPL kernel does not imply anything about the licence of the software that runs on top of it), but they chose not to.
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
Surprise, Surprise, reinventing the wheel is not gonna earn you a lot of friends. And no making the wheel less round is not helpful either.
Eh, trolling much? If you look outside US, Nokia is dominating. iPhone is nowhere as successful as it is in US. In top of that, Nokia holds patents (that they really deserve) over many technologies used with GSM, 3G and so on.
And Nokia offers a real Linux phone, not just Android or locked-down iPhone shit.
Gee, Mr. Ballmer, I would have thought you had more important uses for your time than posting here on Slashdot. We here are flattered, however.
This ain't rocket surgery.