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| DATE | 2009-07-08 |
| FROM | Paul Robert Marino
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Google operating system
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Ron Guerin wrote:
> Paul Robert Marino wrote:
>
>> Ron Guerin wrote:
>>
>>> Paul Robert Marino wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hey I was watching the news and they just said that Google announced
>>>> they are coming out with a PC operating system.
>>>> Considering their history I cant help thinking it will be a variation
>>>> of Android which is GNU Linux based.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Oh man, I wish they'd do us all a favor and not. Allow me to underline
>>> that Android is *not* GNU/Linux based. Google has taken great pains to
>>> ensure there's no GNU in Android.
>>>
>>> - Ron
>>>
>>>
>> well it is using the Linux kernel
>> granted the rest of the OS is mostly in house built however when
>> moving to a larger platform like a PC its hard to imagine they
>> wouldn't leverage the wide range of GNU software. besides I cant see
>> them not using GNU libC or GCC.
>> its all a question of how GNU is it.
>>
> You might want to read up about it. Google doesn't allow any GPL in
> their stuff. That pretty much excludes everything GNU. That GNU/Linux
> users might struggle to twist it into an acceptable form makes it no
> better than Windows or OS X.
>
> - Ron
>
>
Well Apple is treading on questionable ground with OSX.
when I worked with mac's I noticed an "Apple Developers License" tacked
on to the install package for gcc.
also OSX has an interesting history. It all started with something they
called MKLinux http://www.mklinux.org/ which Apple sponsored and that
was latter forked into OpenDarwin where the swapped out a lot of the GNU
licensed software for BSD licensed software but not all of it. In truth
MKLinux was not really Linux at all because it used the Mach kernel its
actually more closely related to GNU/HURD and in reality it was a
GNU/Mach distro.
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