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The quality is being solid, easy to develop for, and, yes, free. I think you overestimate the ability of appliance companies to develop proprietary OS kernels.
by akho 5y ago
The quality is being solid, easy to develop for, and, yes, free. I think you overestimate the ability of appliance companies to develop proprietary OS kernels.
MIT/BSD licensed stuff is still free software.
- pjmlp 5y agoHaving fun enjoying the free software from PlayStation 4 OS? I advise you to read about Zephyr OS, FreeRTOS, Azure RTOS, Fuchsia, NuttX,....
- akho 5y agoZephyr is Apache licensed, FreeRTOS MIT, Fuchsia BSD/MIT/Apache, NuttX Apache. ThreadX is the only one on your list that's not free software, and the success it achieved over its 24 years of existence is not anything to write home about. A closed-source OS in this space has no real chance, as it has to be adapted by hardware makers. Microsoft may be able to provide the backing for wider ThreadX adoption, but don't hold your breath. I don't see how the fact that BSD allows proprietary forks implies it is not high-quality software.
- pjmlp 5y agoI could bother to explain, but will let the Apples, Amazons, Facebooks,Sonys of the world let you know how the rules of the game in big boys club. Again, where is the source code to Playstation OS 4 or clang bitcode changes for watchOS? Got to love FOSS.
- akho 5y agoI do not understand what you are talking about. This started as a proposition that “normal users do not use Linux”. They obviously do. You are sore that corporations use BSD licensed code without letting us see or modify their forks. So am I. What does that have to do with the topic?