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Or not? One example is that there are more OSes than there are for example kernels.

There were (even before Android) _multiple_ Linux-based operating systems designed for PDAs and/or phones (remember GPE? Qtopia? etc), and there are (even after Android) multiple non-Android Linux-based operating systems for phones.

Frankly, evidence seems to point that Google borrowed from the community much more than they gave back.




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