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With that attitude, no one would have ever started trying to write and run their own kernel called Freax on a PC...
by weikju 6y ago
With that attitude, no one would have ever started trying to write and run their own kernel called Freax on a PC...
- globular-toast 6y agoThe PC has always been an open platform. Documentation is readily available and the intention is for users to run whatever they want on the hardware. Completely different.
- fulafel 6y agoIntel and Microsoft control Secure Boot. If Linux hadn't already been so popular on servers when SB came about, it's very possible that PC platform would today be locked down to run MS-only operating systems.
- globular-toast 6y agoRight, but that happened 10 years after Linus started writing his OS. If Microsoft had had their way then the PC would have also been a closed platform. This doesn't contradict my point in any way.
- fulafel 6y agoIt doesn't change the way things stand today but still I think there's a marked difference between openness as a commitment and openness by lucky alignment of interests so far.