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The suggestion has been made countless times that manufacturers who customize their devices' builds of Android (that is to say, nearly all of them) should have the decency to offer users the option of reverting to a completely clean, stock version of the platform if they so choose. The concept came up at a press lunch featuring Google CEO Eric Schmidt last week, and the dude responded with an interesting explanation for why they don't require that of their partners: "if we were to put those type of restrictions on an open source product, we'd be violating the principle of open source."

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The real truth: If Dalvik violates patents, just use a different programming language like, oh, I don't know, C, C++, D, or Go for Android! It would make Android so much faster, considering all these are compiled languages, that Java-based Android would be unnecessary.

How about Python? Integrate a Python interpreter into the kernel and write Android applications that are literally interpreted by the kernel. This sounds like a pretty good replacement for Java-based Android, don't you think?

Maybe you could implement a proof of concept.