Or, more likely, one or more netbook vendors are just done rolling their own linux distros for netbooks and have asked Google to step in. They don't want Andro

Or, more likely, one or more netbook vendors are just done rolling their own linux distros for netbooks and have asked Google to step in. They don't want Android, as Android has some hardware requirements established by the OHA that aren't appropriate for netbooks. The end business goal may be to just get Google to create a better linux option, a -marketable- linux option, so those same vendors can haggle with microsoft for better volume licensing on Windows 7 netbook, including lifting those absurd hardware restrictions. And I guess it wouldn't hurt to have plan B ready, because users aren't going to tolerate Windows performance on netbooks for long.