I'm glad someone verbalized this! God bless Ken Starks and his "Friend".
> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2013/01/happy-sitting-at-kids-table.html It's a "tragedy of the commons". Linux is just the most well known FOSS project. Any and all of them are subject to branding and other hijacks. But Android is really *not* Linux. It's a clean-room Java ... there are no native apps. I'm not a fan of that, but I *do* like how they use POSIX groups for access control. If they did that kind of stuff and went native, then Android would be truly amazing. One followup mentioned Ubuntu, and ChromeBook is a lot like that: uses Linux but has its own (substantial) funded development. IBM has been remarkably well behaved by comparison. What we do is dangerous, or is at least perceived that way. Consumers and executives and bureaucrats want guarantees, or at least the perception of safety. -- -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
