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That's not a front though, that's just doing it with a different revenue stream.

• nitrogen 11y ago
  There was a lot of "first" in the previous comment, which might as well be synonymous with "front" in this context. As an example, Linux wasn't the first UNIX-like kernel or the even the first free UNIX-like kernel, but it (with GNU) was the first free UNIX-like kernel to bring a UNIX-like kernel to the mainstream PC world and span the entire vertical range of computing scale from microcontrollers to TOP500 supercomputers. I'd call that expanding the technological front. Edited for GNUtical correctness, which makes it quite a bit harder to read
  • Redoubts 11y ago
    >There was a lot of "first" in the previous comment, which might as well be synonymous with "front" in this context. Not really. It's literally doing what was done before, 30 years ago.