Thread: Study: Android is least open of open source mobile platforms
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don_falcone is offline don_falcone
2011-08-05 , 16:15
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Originally Posted by Daneel View Post
I have also heard something about custom glibc.
Righteee:

http://www.androidquestions.org/thre...29-for-Android
http://discuz-android.blogspot.com/2...bc-bionic.html

Andorid uses Bionic which remotely resembles glibc. There are rumours too that they wanted to avoid GPL in userland with that move:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...n-1210421.html
http://www.brownrudnick.com/nr/pdf/a...0The%20GPL.pdf

The more i get to know about Android's architecture, the (mainly US) carriers involvement in it, and the friggin' ecosystem, the more i want to avoid it.
 

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