[jeremiah]

Google is in Mountain View, California.

This won't fragment Android, this non-profit entity is designed to make installing Linux on an ARM licensee's silicon easier. There is still a bit of catching up the ARM folks have to do, this project aims to enable it.

I agree it looks like there will be lots of competing interests, but there should be enough of a common denominator amongst the ARM chip makers to at least make porting Linux to their platform less painful. That will enable Android - not fracture it.