When is it worth saying it’s Linux?

“Recently, I was showing a Motorola Milestone phone to a
non-technical friend. When I mentioned that the phone was running
Android, he said to me “Oh, thats the Google Linux for phones isn’t
it… does it run OpenOffice?”. I had to disappoint him at that
point, but it lead to a question I had to ask: When the user
interface is different and the API for developers is different, is
an operating system still Linux, or is it something else?

“At the recent Consumer Electronics Show there was a flood of
netbooks and Android based devices about to be launched into the
market. The folks at the Linux Foundation couldn’t be more pleased
about the incursion of Linux into this new generation of portable
connected devices, but the software that appears on these devices
often doesn’t look or feel like “Linux.”

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