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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by eru on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:15AM (#25056195)
> If you are an OS developer, you will try to commoditize you hardware, If you are an application developer, the smart thing is to commoditize your OS, and so on up the stack.

Both applications and hardware are complementary to an OS.

So if you are an OS developer and are following this logic, you'll also try to commoditize the applications.

(And see eg the Apple app store for an illustration.)

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by rglullis on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:31AM (#25057474)
Yes, you're right. The smart thing to do is to to commoditize up and down the stack.
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