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.
Richard StallmanValue your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.
Richard StallmanCopying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
Richard StallmanEMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.
Richard Stallman