> Google partnered with a bunch of other organisations to create the Open Handset Alliance Android was a product of that partnership and developers/companies we

> Google partnered with a bunch of other organisations to create the Open Handset Alliance Android was a product of that partnership and developers/companies were free to fork the platform should they so wish No, OHA members never were allowed to fork Android as Amazon did. In fact, the very objective of OHA is use the same Android base with a certification process