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Why didn't the Android team make the GNU/Linux stuff work on Android; Because it is a lot of work? Why should another company then spend resources to do that w
by oneweekwonder 14y ago
Why didn't the Android team make the GNU/Linux stuff work on Android; Because it is a lot of work?
Why should another company then spend resources to do that work.
I don't understand what you mean with your second statement. But that might just be because I'm dead tired. But I can not stop myself from reading and typing!!1
- adestefan 14y ago> Why didn't the Android team make the GNU/Linux stuff work on Android; Because it is a lot of work? Because it's GPL licensed. That's it. Google has spent a lot of time and work ripping out perfectly good pieces of code that are GPL licensed and replacing it with (sometimes inferior) BSD or Apache licensed pieces. At some point, the only piece of GPL code will be the Linux kernel.
- cpeterso 14y agoDevice manufacturers' lawyers are very paranoid. That's (part of) the reason Android has its own BSD-licensed libc, "bionic", instead of glibc. When Google ported Chrome to GoogleTV, which runs Android, they ported glibc, too. Apparently, it was easier for them to port glibc to Android than port Chrome to more limited bionic.
- marcosdumay 14y agoFunny thing is that Debian is already at Google Play.