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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by gjsman-1000 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:30PM (#37728280)
Sounds great - there’s just one problem: The desktop applications will still almost entirely be written for Windows. Or MacOS. Or Android.

So yay, you can buy a device… and 99% of people will install the same OS on it that it would have originally come with anyway. What’s the point here?

You’d have to say desktop apps must support all competing operating systems. But, hah, good luck with that.

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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by loup-vaillant on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:51PM (#37729881)
The hope is that hardware interfaces harmonise to the point where writing a new OS becomes actually possible. Right now it's not, there simply is too much diversity, and that's before we talk about all the quirks in hardware APIs vendors currently hide under the software rug. Then maybe, just maybe, we could start some real competition on the OS space.

Even if that doesn't happen I would be happy with the end of vendor lock-in.

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