On 4/4/08, Wolfgang Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > If you look at the Android software stack, you will notice that they > basically only use the Linux kernel and a few traditional 'helper' > libraries, written in C (jpg, png, etc). > But the bulk of the system is written from scratch. They even have their own > libc! Their own Java virtual machine, their own graphics system, etc. etc. > I do believe all of this is very healthy. Fresh blood. Take the Dalvik > virtual machine for example. Basically they kick Sun somewhere, but that may > turn out to be a nice wake-up call for something like HotSpot and similar > established Java projects. IcedTea, GNU Classpath, etc. > At the same time they ignore pretty much everything the FOSS community built > over the last 10-20 years. > No X, no d-bus, no standard packaging system, ... > It's a fundamentally different approach from Openmoko. ...
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