> Why do we need this? About the biggest piece I can see which benefits the outside world is the fact that Fuchsia's drivers are independent of kernel version.

> Why do we need this? About the biggest piece I can see which benefits the outside world is the fact that Fuchsia's drivers are independent of kernel version. This is one of the biggest pain points for Android upgrades. A Fuchsia based kernel upgrade won't be held hostage by lack of Qualcomm/ Nvidia/ Mediatec binary drivers. But mostly, I suspect Google just wants an OS that isn't burdened by GPL.