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I really like fuschia, Redox and the other microkernels. However, I am highly concerned about the license change. About the only upside of the Android ecosyste
by MayeulC 8y ago
I really like fuschia, Redox and the other microkernels. However, I am highly concerned about the license change.
About the only upside of the Android ecosystem was the kernel's license, forcing kernel drivers to be open-sourced. This allows mainlining back devices into the Linux tree, which enables a variety of user projects, such as postmarketos.
On the other hand, some of these drivers already acted as a shim to a userspace blob, and having an IPC would at least provide isolation from the blobs themselves, and allow tapping a clear IPC interface for reverse-engineering those. So all might not be lost.
On the sustainability of open source, since this seems to be debated much in this thread, I personally think (and it is a debatable viewpoint) that this ought to be incentivized at a government level (by taxing software/technology sales, and sponsoring open source projects with the proceeds). This would provide a much more robust base on which to provide (proprietary if you want) services upon.