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Well, Android is hardly GNU/Linux, is it? Especially the GNU part is completely absent there.

• eatbitseveryday 10y ago
  The drive isn't / wasn't so much the "GNU" portion dominating as much as it was just for the Linux kernel itself.
  • najati83 10y ago
    The point of the "Linux on the desktop" meme was that everybody would start using free, preferently GPL'd software for everything. Android is far away from that.
    • eatbitseveryday 10y ago
      > The point of the "Linux on the desktop" meme was that everybody would start using free, preferently GPL'd software for everything. Android is far away from that. I guess it depends how you look at it :) I would see it as "not using Windows" but your statement seems to be "not using any closed-source software". It's an effort with variable goals and there are different opinions what is meant. If you ask rms he'd agree with you. :)