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Why would anyone pay for it?

• zozbot234 5y ago
  Because it gets rid of an especially nasty sort of technical debt. It makes that piece of hardware useful with reliable, up-to-date versions of the kernel.
• wmf 5y ago
  I imagine Collabora has embedded Linux customers who prefer to use an upstream kernel rather than some kind of Android blob kludge.
• solarkraft 5y ago
  There's enough of a business demand for it. What surprises me is that this leads to (presumably) smaller customers paying Collabora to do it instead of the SoC manufacturer just providing a usable driver.
• sobkas 5y ago
  > Why would anyone pay for it? Because doing it properly is too expensive for average customer? Also, in capitalism you only need to outrun your competitors, not achieve some kind of perfect driver. So when your competitors are as &'££&-- as you, wasting time on a perfect driver is a waste of time.