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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last we... by vineyardmike on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @01:04PM (#34521838)
> Why would any other tech company contribute to something like this?

It’s a new OS without a lot of the baggage and legacy stuff of Linux/etc.

I agree the Google-influence makes it hard, but it could be a valuable target for other companies IOT work. They’d probably need to maintain a fork though.

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last we... by selfhoster11 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:21PM (#34522893)
If said “legacy stuff” are things like an ethos of user freedom, then I don’t see a reason to keep Fuchsia.
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last we... by vineyardmike on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:05AM (#34530234)
I was thinking more that legacy stuff meant memory safety bugs and decades of design choices made for devices with radically different hardware profiles than most used today.

But sure that too…

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