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See, NOW it makes sense...See, NOW it makes sense...Posted Feb 4, 2010 19:51 UTC (Thu) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953)In reply to: See, NOW it makes sense... by dcbw Parent article: Greg Kroah-Hartman: Android and the Linux kernel community
As a company building phones, would you rather just use the same hardware Google build Android for, or would you rather invest a ton of time into porting Android to another SoC and write completely new SDIO, radio, power-management, etc drivers while your competitors come out with 3 new phones?I would rather see you upstream all your changes (including userspace), then TI or other phone makers can upstream and GPL all their changes (including userspace tools) and in the long run Android runs on anything that the Kernel runs on. There is a reason it's called a community. Rather that build everything yourself why not get upstream so that all the work others are doing can be used. That way if some new SOC maker comes to Google and says "we want you to use our chip" you simply tell them to get "X" into the Kernel and then you aren't dependent on one supplier/IP platform. I think you guys have fully missed the point of FOSS.
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