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by eevilspock 4398 days ago
HN is going downhill because more and more users down-vote comments not because they are fallacious or illogical, but because don't like them.

sp332's comment is fair, as far as I know, but so is mine. Android is a Linux distribution according to the Linux Foundation, Google's open-source chief Chris DiBona, and several journalists.[1] "We assess the initial effort needed to adapt the Linux kernel into Android and found that 99% of the function-alities of Linux kernel 2.6 were reused into Android, and only 0.7% of the reused files were modified to implement the requirements of Android."[2]

I said the slide is "nonsense" because it is inconsistent in how it counts Linux-based OSes.

[1] Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)

[2] Adapting Linux for Mobile Platforms: An Empirical Study of Android. http://swat.polymtl.ca/~foutsekh/docs/era-khomh-foutse-adapt...