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It mainly has to do with the opportunity/cost of companies deciding whether or not to develop open firmware. If a proprietary version is included in the kernel,
by rw 18y ago
It mainly has to do with the opportunity/cost of companies deciding whether or not to develop open firmware. If a proprietary version is included in the kernel, they are very unlikely to bother to go through the cost of relicensing the software.
- eru 18y agoOK, that's a point. What about the BSDs?
- albertcardona 18y agoExcept OpenBSD, the other BSD's have just as much firmware binary blobs as linux does [disclaimer: I am a linux user].