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Android and the Linux Kernel Community

Posted by timothy on from the cathedral-in-the-bazaar dept.

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 ..."

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  1. Re:Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Y'a quelqu'un qui comprends ce que Anonymous Coward a écrit? Moi je n'y comprends rien.

  2. Re:Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't worry about that.Until I joined Google I had never seen so much arrogance and groupthink. Place feels like a sect and don't you dare say anything bad about any Google product, no matter if it's a POS like Orkut.

  3. Re:Google by oztiks · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I started a comment with the sentence "The good thing about the iPhone ..." in a prior Google / Android article and what did i get for my troubles? an instant ... Troll

    Make no mistake, Googles hidden geek mafia run this here town.

  4. Re:Google by cowtamer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mod parent up, as it brings up a valid point, despite being an AC