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by forgotpwd16 1489 days ago
>the freedom to implement proprietary drivers

That exists already. Vast majority of Android devices require binary blobs in kernel for essential functionality.

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> require binary blobs

That's the point. With something like fuchsia there can be entire closed forks of the kernel instead of having to blobs, making closed source easier to develop.