I think you give some valid concerns. I definitely understand you, but I want to give some counter arguments to where I'm seeing chances with Fuchsia in additio

I think you give some valid concerns. I definitely understand you, but I want to give some counter arguments to where I'm seeing chances with Fuchsia in addition to the dangers that you rightfully point out. First, there are thriving non-copyleft driver projects, like mesa. No copyleft forces Intel to contribute to it. No copyleft forces AMD. Second, even in Linux, many drivers aren't maintained by their vendors, but third parties. I think that an upstream driver is generally easier to deal with for most parties, so most parties would prefer it. If fuchsia is indeed as modular as it promises to be, users can swap out those drivers, at least in custom ROMs. Android custom ROMs already copy over proprietary drivers from the native OS upon installation. Third, the GCC compiler has artificially restricted the ability to use it as a backend for third party languages, which led to many projects choosing LLVM instead. These projects now contribute to LLVM's success. Yes, some extensions to LLVM are proprietary. Still many companies contribute to LLVM directly. Fourth, legal action doesn't turn a company into a good citizen. They might release the source code in the end but they become extremely hostile to free software projects coming forward, because suddenly the legal department got involved. Those employees who share the cause can't freely talk on mailing lists any more because all mails to the project first require approval by a company lawyer. Etc. The released source code might be unusable anyways because it's done to a fork of an outdated version of the kernel.