The world of open source collaborative projects can be murky at times, and throwing crowdfunding into the mix doesn’t make it any clearer.
This odd intersection is the source of much drama in the small but passionate community that wants to see Android become as widespread on the desktop as it is on mobile. Members of the open source development team over at the Android-x86 Project, which aims to make Android operable on standard PC hardware, claim that Kickstarter project Console OS has “stolen” Android x86 code and presented it, at least in part, as its own creation.
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