Thread: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
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mdl is offline mdl
2009-10-19 , 12:24
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#29
Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
You may program for it differently; however having a Linux kernel pretty much dictates that it is Linux based. And thusly so, both are Linux derived OS's.

Not picking fights here; however the OS is usually dictated by the kernel.
Yes, semantically this is correct.

I think the term missing here is POSIX. Android is not POSIX-compliant, and you're limited to the Android API. Thus Android is just not as open or hackable as Maemo.

The debate here is really about openness, not whether the device runs the Linux kernel.
 

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