WebOS is a real Linux, it uses vanilla kernels (close to stock linux-omap, the hardware platform is basically a beagleboard), standard drivers, and a mainstream

WebOS is a real Linux, it uses vanilla kernels (close to stock linux-omap, the hardware platform is basically a beagleboard), standard drivers, and a mainstream userland with glibc, gstreamer, pulseaudio, etc. Android is none of that. It's a Linux that's been bludgeoned to death by Sidekick developers, and then run through the meat grinder by a bunch of Taiwanese hardware idiots. Everything their code had to touch directly was needlessly reimplemented in boggling ways that are neither useful nor portable. The fucking iPhone is more recognizably Unix than Android is! You get about as much of the "openness/choice/capability" of the Linux kernel on Android as you do with a TiVO.