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Re:Darpa invests $100M in a silicon compiler by wrs on Friday June 29, 2018 @07:24PM (#17428621)
Different level of liability. When GPL missteps are discovered in software, the offender can usually just re-release the software without the GPL code and move on. In hardware…it's soldered into a bunch of devices all over the place. Consider Intel taking a $475 million hit for the FDIV bug (requiring a hardware replacement) vs the invisible bugfixing through microcode (i.e., software) they do now.
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Re:Darpa invests $100M in a silicon compiler by ummonk on Friday June 29, 2018 @08:32PM (#17428861)
They would just need to pay a fee to the copyright owner for the violations, not replace all the existing hardware.
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Re:Darpa invests $100M in a silicon compiler by phkahler on Friday June 29, 2018 @08:03PM (#17428767)
You don't skip validation just because you use open source.
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