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by naasking 3202 days ago
You seriously think that open source drivers would have fewer CVEs than sandboxed drivers?
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catern 3202 days ago
How exactly are you going to sandbox your drivers? Run them in user-mode, perhaps? But then you've constructed a microkernel, and no-one uses your system because it's slow.

Anyway, what I said is that sandboxing isn't a substitute for open-sourcing. They are complements, not substitutes.

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naasking 3201 days ago
> But then you've constructed a microkernel, and no-one uses your system because it's slow.

FUD. L4 is the most widely deployed kernel in the world.

> Anyway, what I said is that sandboxing isn't a substitute for open-sourcing.

Given reality, something must substitute for open source drivers. Sandboxing is certainly the obvious choice.

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catern 3201 days ago
>Given reality, something must substitute for open source drivers

Linux is quite real, I assure you.

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