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Mr. Hyde, let me first say that I feel much more comfortable speaking with Dr. Jekyll.
Second, donations get used as sparingly as possible. XBMC goes to approximately two trade shows a year (SCALE and Linuxtag) to present at a booth. Donations help pay for those trips.
Additionally, the Foundation needs to pay for certain legal things. For example, we'll occasionally ask our lawyer questions so that we don't step too far over the line or ask him to help with legal forms.
Finally, if there's a call for it from within the community, we may buy hardware and loan it to our developers to help expand XBMC onto a platform. For example, there's occasional talk about whether we should buy a few Android tablets to help the process of porting XBMC to Android. I believe we ultimately decided to hold off on that, but I could be wrong.
Donations might also be used to help pull together our developer conferences that happen once ever year or three, but typically we try to get one of sponsors to help pay for that instead, as getting a sizable number of developers together is fairly expensive.
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Pooh, last I checked (over the summer), the primary issue was that most builds up to a certain point in Android simply lacked WAY too many dependencies to make them tenable for XBMC. Ice Cream Sandwich - back during the summer - was looking like the first version of Android that would make a reasonably good candidate for XBMC. My knowledge of the issue ends there at the conversation that happened 6 months ago. Anything I've got to say on the issue now should be taken with a grain of salt.