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Re:The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders by ianlevesque on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:06AM (#25157466)
I agree this is a great way to sell it, but don’t all the dead end forks of Linux for various ARM SoCs belie the Linux argument?
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Re:The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders by dvdkon on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:33AM (#25158457)
They perfectly demonstrate the disadvantages of private forks. They don't get security fixes, other bugfixes, or new features that userspace software will eventually use.
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Re:The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders by rozab on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:42AM (#25159169)
Right, they never would have seen the light of day were it not for GPL.
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Re:The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders by Reelin on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:36AM (#25157605)
That's complicated and has a lot to do (as I understand it) with NDAs, copyright, and the general air of secrecy surrounding the low level details of proprietary hardware.
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