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by RobotToaster 1166 days ago
I imagine there's upstream issues too, with NDA's for hardware interfaces, and obviously proprietary OS like VxWorks, MS ThreadX, etc.
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I was about to say that a lot of this is completely ignoring the few network vendors/chip vendors that have completely locked down hardware/chips that you're buying from them and effectively acting like a value added reseller for companies like broadcom.