Re: SFLC is succeeding.

[RJack]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> In gnu.misc.discuss RJack <user@example.net> wrote:
> > Hyman Rosen wrote:
> > > On 1/11/2010 11:34 AM, RJack wrote:
> > > > UHHHH..... Doesn't look like Google embraced the GPL to me
>
> "Embrace" is a silly word here.  Firms don't wrap their arms round 
> software to give it hugs.  "Embrace" is one of these well-nigh 
> meaningless words loved by market droids, one which sound really
> positive and friendly, yet can be used when the user is anxious to
> avoid being pinned down to any precise meaning.  It looks like that's
> how you've used the word above.

"Embrace" and extend is one of the most infamous business strategy known
to the Software World. You may not like it but it's reality.

> > > Android runs a Linux kernel. Linux is distributed under the GPL.
> > >  Google could have chosen a non-GPLed kernel, as Apple did. But
> > > they did not. Google uses a variety of licenses. For example,
> > > Google Chromium is BSD-licensed 
> > > <http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html>.
>
> > Android is NOT Linux, no matter how you spin it Hyman
>
> RJack, "is" isn't a helpful word, here.  Android contains Linux, and 
> includes other software too.  You may be getting confused between
> Linux the kernel and the multitude of "Linux"es which, along with the
> kernel, include GNU system software and tools, BSD licensed
> networking stuff and MIT licensed X11.  In that sense, Android "is"
> just as much a "Linux" as Red Hat, or SuSE, or Debian, or Gentoo, or
> ......

I'm not confused about anything at all. Android is Android as in
"Google" and Linux is Linux as in "Linus Torvalds". I know that you GNU
fanatics believe all software is "Free Software" but strength of belief
doesn't make it true.

Sincerely,
RJack :)