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Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model by gman83 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @05:52PM (#25352638)
I don't think it's fair to call Windows on ARM an "engineer retention project". They actually released Windows RT and tried very hard to make it work. They still have it going with the Surface Pro X, and they just announced an emulation layer to get x64 applications working on ARM, which if it works well would solve RT's biggest problem, a lack of legacy applications: https://www.neowin.net/news/it039s-official-x64-emulation-is...
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Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model by anp on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:18PM (#25354111)
My possibly incorrect read of GP is that it started as effectively a retention project until someone realized they really wanted it.
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Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model by com2kid on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:35PM (#25363363)
That is correct. It was a one man show for a long time (I don't think it was his only job, just a side project), then when tablets happened a full team was ramped up behind it.
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