DM60
Well-known member
Judging by your post, I'm pretty sure you don't have a good idea of what you're talking about...do you know how many lines of code are in Linux? Nearly 20 MILLION in the latest kernel release. You probably couldn't even understand what the code was doing unless you have a graduate degree in computer science lol. And yes Android is based off of the Linux kernel, but Google has 0 to do with Linux otherwise.
Actually I do have a graduate degree in computer science, and while true I would have a difficult time creating an OS (which is not done by one person) having taken classes on OS design and build, I understand their complexities.
But I see your reading comprehension seems to be lacking as that was the point of the post. Unless you review and compile your own code, you never would know what was buried inside of it. This includes the Linux distributions and even source code that can be compiled.
Google does contribute to the open source project. They have for years.