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Re:Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of softw... by nicoburns on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:34AM (#28434717)
If the code were open source, I'd be willing to bet quite a lot that this kind of code would get cleaned up and mainlined. Certainly for popular handsets from major manufacturers which probably account for the majority of handsets sold.
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Re:Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of softw... by danhor on Monday September 06, 2021 @12:59PM (#28435683)
Thanks to the GPL this is already often the case (at least for the kernel). But vendor code is so abhorrent in quality, upstream efforts are few and far between.
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