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Android: the return of the Unix wars?Android: the return of the Unix wars?Posted Aug 24, 2010 20:30 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)In reply to: Android: the return of the Unix wars? by dberlin Parent article: Android: the return of the Unix wars?
I disagree, but like you I don't have any real, hard facts to point to. So we'll just have to agree to disagree on that point until hard data comes in. At least we agree that the GPLv3 would have provided stronger end-user freedom enforcement. Cheers!
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Android: the return of the Unix wars? Posted Aug 25, 2010 10:12 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
I think there's a certain amount of evidence available just by looking at Android itself - despite actively trying to get their kernel changes upstream for some time, most of the kernel work hasn't been merged, and a lot of it will never be. The best we can hope is that eventually, after a substantial expenditure of effort, the kernel may eventually get the means to do what Google needs using a different design.
Yes, the kernel is a particularly difficult area in which to get changes merged, but I'd still be astonished if traditionally proprietary companies actually went to the effort of getting non-trivial changes to open source projects merged upstream, rather than just providing a big code dump.
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