It claims to be Linux yet none of its apps work on Linux or benefit the GNU/Linux ecosystem...

Android is Linux, just as Redhat is Linux. All Linux distributions include out-of-tree patches, and Android is no different.

...due to running a private fork of the upstream kernel.

This is because Android doesn't use a standard C library, however, most embedded Linux solutions don't either. It has little to do with wakelocks.

It claims to be Java yet none of its apps work in standard Java.

Android doesn't claim to be Java, it claims to use Dalvik which uses Java syntax but not the bytecode or VM.


It claims to be Open yet the development happens behind closed doors until Google hands the code to handset makers.

I don't see how this different from Maemo or Meego. But, I think the existence of cyangenmod and nitdroid lend to the openness of Android.

Android is the new Microsoft and an enemy of the GNU/Linux ecosystem and Open Standards.

I'm not sure how much contribution Google has made in terms of lines of code, but Summer of Code projects have contributed enormously to free software in general and GNU/Linux specifically.

It has followed Microsoft’s tactics:

1. Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.
2. Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the ‘simple’ standard.
3. Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.

You've described Microsoft, but I don't see how any of this applies to Google. In fact, their actions--like webm for example--suggest quite the opposite. To validate your argument, you'll need to offer specific examples.