Re:Fuchsia Developers Website
by meruru on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:09PM
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I think if Google drops Linux for Fuchsia, there's a chance Microsoft picks up Android development. That would be incredible.
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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website
by flyinglizard on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:31PM
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Android will still be Android, but running over a Fuchsia kernel instead of the Linux kernel.
Re:Fuchsia Developers Website
by joenathanone on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:03PM
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Fuchsia is an OS not a kernel, the kernel running under Fuchsia is called Zircon.
Linux is the last GPL component of Android. Dropping it would enable Google to close up Android source whenever they want.
Re:Fuchsia Developers Website
by flyinglizard on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:33PM
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That doesn't make sense to me at all - you can have a closed source system running on top of Linux, today.
Re:Fuchsia Developers Website
by ghostpepper on Saturday June 29, 2019 @05:37PM
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Isn't that exactly what Android is?
edit: misread your comment
No, Android (or rather, AOSP), is fully open source.
Most device makers fork AOSP and distribute binaries containing their modifications. These always come with source code for the GPL portions, and occasionally also the portions licensed under permissive licenses such as Apache and BSD.
For instance, OnePlus and Sony publish these Android sources: https://github.com/OnePlusOSS https://github.com/sonyxperiadev?tab=repositories
> Most device makers fork AOSP and distribute binaries
That's what Google does as well and it's called "Android".
Re:Fuchsia Developers Website
by yellowapple on Monday July 01, 2019 @09:53PM
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If that was actually Google's intent, then it seems silly to release Fuchsia under any semblance of a free software license.