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by pjmlp 1484 days ago
It is sooo successful on the Android, IoT ecosystems.
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josephcsible 1484 days ago
So just because some people have broken rules and gotten away with it so far, we should get rid of those rules for everyone?
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cogman10 1484 days ago
Nobody has broken rules. The rules are simply permissive enough that you can still push out a Non-GPL drivers for a GPL mono-kernel.

The Fuchsia design is good because it recognizes that reality and creates a world where patching the kernel doesn't require hardware vendors to rebuild their drivers.

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pjmlp 1484 days ago
Rules that can be broken in the open without consequences aren't rules.

In any case, the transition to MIT based FOSS on embedded platforms like Zephyr, RTOS, NutX,... proves that it won't matter for much longer anyway.

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pabs3 1484 days ago
That will probably change if this lawsuit against Vizio succeeds:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

If it does, then any recipient of Linux will be able to sue for compliance.

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