Z:gnu-www-ja-android-and-users-freedom--746d54-Android is very different from/en

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. People who erroneously think &ldquo;Linux&rdquo; refers to the entire GNU/Linux combination get tied in knots by these facts, and make paradoxical statements such as &ldquo;Android contains Linux, but it isn't Linux.&rdquo; If we avoid starting from the confusion, the situation is simple: Android contains Linux, but not GNU; thus, Android and GNU/Linux are mostly different.