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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by garaetjjte on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:44PM (#26598714)
>as an effort to make the cost of keeping drivers closed-source high

I don't think it is intentional. Linux development is very pragmatic, they just want to have freedom to refactor anything without caring about stable kernel APIs.

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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by young_unixer on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:45AM (#26600467)
Ironically, they care a lot about stability towards user space interfaces, to the point that bugs become features if someone depends on them, but they don't care about driver interfaces being stable.
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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by kevincox on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:19AM (#26601785)
This seems like a win-win. The kernel developers are free to refactor as they need to keep the quality and velocity high and companies are incentivized to upstream patches including making drivers in-kernel.
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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by fakename11 on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:59PM (#26599795)
It's somewhat pragmatic for the Linux developers. Support a stable kernel API probably wouldn't be that expensive. It's clearly a political decision against writing close source code that does anything low level.
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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by ClumsyPilot on Saturday March 27, 2021 @09:24AM (#26602114)
I am not sure why the comment is being downvoted - thats exactly what it is, a political decision to force companies to produce open drivers.
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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by joelellis on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:55PM (#26603636)
Because of this unsubstantiated and baseless claim:

> Support a stable kernel API probably wouldn't be that expensive

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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by alisonkisk on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:10AM (#26600328)
How is it clear?
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