Without it, Ubuntu for Android would probably never have happened. My article for InfoWorld this week includes a video demonstration of it in action, and reflects a little on how open source removes obstacles so that innovation can simply happen and not be bogged down with the inevitable stop-energy proprietary approaches involve.
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It may never have happened, but now that it has, the world is greeting it with a resounding “so what?” Making one OS run on another platform is hardly innovation, it’s been happening since the dawn of OS time.
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