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It’s a funny state of the world that the flagship hobbyist “open source” development boards now both contain products from such hobbyist-hostile chip companies
by leoedin 1y ago
It’s a funny state of the world that the flagship hobbyist “open source” development boards now both contain products from such hobbyist-hostile chip companies as Qualcomm and Broadcom!
- Iulioh 1y agoi guess that you have to make compromise somewhere The Fairphone 5 used a QCM6490, a qualcomm industrial chip with a 10y support timeline The Fairphone 6 uses a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 with ane stimated 3-4 years of support At least for the 5 the compromise was motivated, in the second case i just don't feel like the low performance is a worthwhile compromise.
- beeflet 1y agoperhaps the idea with the fairphone is to make the motherboard reverse-compatible with previous models, like framework? They changed the naming scheme
- pjmlp 1y agoJust like the Linux kernel has plenty of contributions from the companies that get as much hate as possible from FOSS communities. Turns out there isn't adoption success without compromises.