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Re:Fuchsia overview by SSLy on Sunday May 31, 2020 @06:47AM (#23368641)
It's GOOG's GPL-less replacement for the Linux kernel, made so they can control the phones even more.
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Re:Fuchsia overview by tempodox on Sunday May 31, 2020 @07:03AM (#23368713)
Now I understand why much of the language in there looks more like foggy marketing hype than a comprehensible explanation.
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Re:Fuchsia overview by SSLy on Sunday May 31, 2020 @07:14AM (#23368773)
Besides, the page's CSS is (besides colours) very alike to their other properties. https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/tutorials/he...

And, well "For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies."

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Re:Fuchsia overview by oseityphelysiol on Monday June 01, 2020 @09:49AM (#23378387)
Do you actually believe a company such as Google would constrain themselves with GPL (which is pretty much _socialism_) on a product that will possibly bring hundreds of billions in revenue?
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Re:Fuchsia overview by SSLy on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:50PM (#23396771)
No, of course it's logical for them to ditch GPL at the earliest convenience.

And it's still logical of me to criticise the idea on principle.

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