Would they? Especially given that they'd already heavily modified their fork to meet their specific needs with ashmem, binder, and logcat? And the fact that they pretty much completely changed direction with user-space development in 2007 to meet the iPhone and not BB?
I seriously doubt they had time to switch to a more user-hostile kernel, given what was already in place. Especially given that they had their hands full programming a user-hostile libc and a user-hostile driver framework that would help hardware vendors with their user-hostile driver-blobs.
I seriously doubt they had time to switch to a more user-hostile kernel, given what was already in place. Especially given that they had their hands full programming a user-hostile libc and a user-hostile driver framework that would help hardware vendors with their user-hostile driver-blobs.