On 03/05/2010 12:36 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: > But there's a whole slew of > custom-google-glue-and-tweaks, which was disappointing.
Yeah, Google likes to grab a project, modify it to its own needs, and throw the code over the wall. Same as happens for Chrome. Tom Callaway at Fedora did yeoman's work figuring this all out, building patch files, proper RPM's, etc., but then found that there were licensing violations too and had to abandon it. Google could do this work if it wanted to (it was a part-time effort for Tom) but they choose not to. The Android stuff has been removed from linux for now since their sleep locking stuff was only optimized for time-to-market. The community-friendly project that's most like Android is MeeGo, the merger of Maemo (Nokia) and Moblin (Intel), which is now essentially a Fedora derivative. It would be lovely if Google participated in the community too. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
