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It did continue. They're called Chromebooks now. Granted it perverted the entire idea of Linux by limiting the user's freedom to run anything but a data-harves
by AdmiralAsshat 9y ago
It did continue. They're called Chromebooks now.
Granted it perverted the entire idea of Linux by limiting the user's freedom to run anything but a data-harvesting web-browser, but, semantics.
- Apocryphon 9y agoFreeBSD (as the other thread points out) brought us macOS and Linux brought us Chrome OS. Do FOSS folks lament this dramatic irony a lot?
- liveoneggs 9y agoBSD people certainly do not.
- TallGuyShort 9y agoI will admit to passive-aggressively refusing to help people fix their Macs and iPads, telling them that Apple makes a point of being closed and proprietary, and that if they want free tech support from me they should ask me for a software recommendation I'm willing and able to stand behind first. But... I don't really care if my contributions to open-source get used in a closed-source product. I just won't buy it because you intentionally neutered my ability to fix it myself. And I'm going to raise that point if your potential customers ask me what I think of it. But I don't feel any bitterness over it that I don't also feel for stuff that's entirely proprietary to begin with.
- bachmeier 9y agoIt's trivial to run Linux on a Chromebook, so I don't see much of a problem.
- tomc1985 9y ago> Do FOSS folks lament this dramatic irony a lot? Not so dramatic as linux and FOSS have brought us so much more. FreeBSD too.