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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by nvarsj on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:33AM (#15415033)
It's a bit of a stretch to attribute opensource with the rise of IoT. Those devices have plenty of proprietary software as well.
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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by astrodust on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:25PM (#15419652)
Since the licensing costs are often zero it's made products possible that were previously impossible if they needed to license QNX, Windows CE or something proprietary.

Open-source reduces friction. This is good in some areas and bad in others.

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