Re:How sandboxing works in Fuchsia
by vertex-four on Monday June 19, 2017 @12:16AM
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Linux does not have wide open-source hardware support on mobile phones, so that argument simply doesn't work in this space - you're arguing in favour of a supposed status quo that doesn't actually exist in the first place.
>How, exactly, would it hurt? Perhaps by... discouraging use from companies that want to keep their changes private?
Yes. That would hurt, because as a user I am very much interested in the products of those companies.
And Google wants them as an OS vendor too.
>I am completely fine with that.
Well, the vendors and Google are not. And neither would I be.
Proprietary code should not be allowed anywhere near the kernel or hardware support.
So that only second tier vendors bother applying?
As a concluding remark, I'll just repost what I posted elsewhere in this thread:
>Consider what happens if you're wrong. What happens if the GPL actually is the reason why Linux has such wide open-source hardware support? Then say goodbye to hacking on Fuschia on your own hardware...
>I'm not willing to take that risk.
"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken!"