Linus Torvalds on Android, the Linux fork

During his question and answer session at the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon, Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, revealed that while mainstream Linux and its popular smartphone and tablet son Google’s Android still aren’t as close as they should be, they’re slowly—ever so slowly—coming back together.

Over the last several years, some people have been seeing Android as not being Linux at all. Google didn’t help matters at all when in the fall of 2010, “Google engineer Patrick Brady stated unambiguously that Android is not Linux” That was never true. Android has always been Linux...