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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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