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Re:“Proof” that Fuchsia will replace Linux for Google by loeg on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:36AM (#13658138)
> the last thing we need is another proprietary OS on a device they built on the backs of the FOSS community

If Google builds this kernel from the ground up and chooses to license it MIT, how is any binary derived from that "built on the backs of the FOSS community?"

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Re:“Proof” that Fuchsia will replace Linux for Google by flukus on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:52AM (#13658180)
They would likely keep a lot of the gnu userland. Let's not forget that google themselves are built on the backs of the FOSS community, without FOSS there might not be a google at all, certainly not an android.
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Re:“Proof” that Fuchsia will replace Linux for Google by icebraining on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:27AM (#13658264)
They would likely keep a lot of the gnu userland.

There's nothing to keep, Android already doesn't use the GNU userland. They built their own libc (bionic) and the commands are all using busybox, IIRC.

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Re:“Proof” that Fuchsia will replace Linux for Google by em3rgent0rdr on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:51AM (#13658175)
because the android system was built off the labour of the Linux community.
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