You might be interested in the www.cyanogenmod.org project, they seem to be 
pushing the open source side of Android.  I hacked my Nook Color to run Android 
Ice Cream Sandwich. 

Android is Linux: ?
http://www.androidcentral.com/ask-ac-android-linux

Each app on Android is a separate Linux user. 

Mark Engelhardt
Intuitive Engineering

On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Intense Red wrote:

>> Given that, I'd venture to say their tablet release wouldn't be far
>> behind. 
> 
>   Let's hope so. The tablet market is still pretty open and iOS or Android or 
> whoever haven't established a firm lock on the market -- yet. I've resisted 
> buying a tablet because I think the two options not are too corporate 
> controlled and are not fully free.
> 
>   Having an open alternative based on fully free software would be great. 
> There's still time to keep this market open and influence its evolution. 
> Whether it's Ubuntu that breaks up the evolving duopoly or someone else is 
> irrelevant, as long as we can avoid that fate.

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