On: United States vs. Google

[sudosysgen]

They would only be able to do it if they get rid of any code at all that they didn't develop themselves, and then accordingly followed the rest of the licenses.

I'd imagine this would be a huge clusterfuck.

[vermilingua → sudosysgen]

Is that not the whole premise of Fuscia/Zircon?

[sudosysgen → vermilingua]

That might very well be it, but that is very, very different from Android.

If push comes to shove, I would expect most manufacturers to continue using Android instead of using Fuchsia or Zircon.

[saagarjha → sudosysgen]

Fuchsia has an Android runtime, FWIW.

[sudosysgen → saagarjha]

A lot of OSes have an Android runtime. The good thing about Android is that it's Free Software which is easily extensible, relatively easy to get good at since it's Linux based, and that risk is minimal.