OT: LinuxTag '09 in Berlin, Germany

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

On Tuesday 16 June 2009 18:50:41 Nils Faerber wrote:
> I am currently wondering if forking the Android would in theory be
> possible? Could some open source enthusiast community "hijack" the project?

Code-wise, I don't think Android/Linux provides much value to the GNU/Linux 
world, it's way too diffferent to advance the movement of free software beyond 
some kernel patches of questionable style.

Marketing-wise it's ambivalent; on the upside it strengthens the brand Linux, 
on the downside it communicates a wrong picture of openness, if you consider a 
platform being a combination of hardware and software.

Concept-wise, it's nice. We should definitely look at the architecture and 
"steal" the best concepts.

> Oh well... I am not very keen on Java programming... :) So let's stop
> this Android philisophical stuff, there's more important things to do...

Word! :)

Cheers,

:M: