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Re:Show HN: Redox Rust OS – v0.3.3 release by Sir_Cmpwn on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @07:05AM (#15292400)
One reason is that it helps keep Linux free by making it harder to pull code out of the tree or maintain out-of-tree drivers, which encourages people to contribute their changes upstream.
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Re:Show HN: Redox Rust OS – v0.3.3 release by lobster_johnson on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:50AM (#15295102)
Doesn't the GPL ensure this?
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Re:Show HN: Redox Rust OS – v0.3.3 release by Sir_Cmpwn on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:56AM (#15295183)
You can write kernel drivers that are not GPL, which is difficult with the continuously changing internal kernel API.
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