> Google didn’t help matters at all when in the fall of 2010, “Google engineer Patrick Brady stated unambiguously that Android is not Linux” That was never true

> Google didn’t help matters at all when in the fall of 2010, “Google engineer Patrick Brady stated unambiguously that Android is not Linux” That was never true. Another example why naming popular desktop OSes as "GNU/Linux" (as opposed to plain "Linux") is important, unless all parties know the context. And never compare "Android" and "Linux", unless the "Android" comes right before the word "kernel".