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All of which are more expensive decisions than working from existing foundations and building on top of them, not throwing out the baby with the bathwater and d
by andrewmcwatters 2y ago
All of which are more expensive decisions than working from existing foundations and building on top of them, not throwing out the baby with the bathwater and demolishing the bathtub, then designing a walk-in shower, adopting a new baby, putting a portable bathtub in the walk-in shower, and refilling it.
Hey, but at least you can remove the tub whenever you want now.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoWell, I think that it could be argued that GNU, and Xorg, and GTK, and all the rest, wasn’t the best foundation to build on in 2003. At a minimum, it would have required so much modification to run on mobile phones, that combined with the license (remembering that Android was originally a small company not part of Google), would not have led to a viable business model or platform. Even today, Xorg would be a terrible fit for a mobile device, and most embedded devices don’t use GNU.
- ndiddy 2y agoThe Nokia N900 was a production mobile phone that ran Linux (Debian-based) with a GNU userland, Xorg, and a GTK+ based graphical environment. It was very responsive, had a ton of features, and got great reviews (even outside the Linux enthusiast community). It failed in the market, but the reasons why it did had little to do with the choice in technology.