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Re:OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TV... by awill on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:49AM (#29339142)
>>There isn’t a market here.

I can assure you there is an even smaller a market for a reverse engineered open source LG TV firmware.

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Re:OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TV... by TuringTest on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:58AM (#29339211)
And an even smaller market for a reverse engineered open source LG TV firmware that does nothing, I'm afraid.
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Re:OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TV... by hyperman1 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @03:58AM (#29339536)
The fun part of open source is that a market of 1 interested person is enough.

As an extreme case, Linus Torvalds decided to write a terminal emulator, do it straight on the bare metal for his PC, accidentally deleted his OS in the process, then got carried away a bit trying to survive without real OS. None of these decisions made any business sense, yet we have the entire Linux ecosystem out of it.

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Re:OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TV... by wizzwizz4 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @03:59AM (#29339540)
Not that much smaller, though. Of course the market for things-that-are-X is larger than the market for things-that-are-both-X-and-Y, since the latter is a subset of the former.
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