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by naraic0o 7y ago
I'm pretty sure FreeRTOS has been open source since its inception in 2003, see posts going back to 2004 at [0]. Amazon forked it, merged their fork with the original project and took over it in 2017. You can read about it here [1]. [0]
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by naraic0o 8y ago
I imagine he means they blacklist the IMEI, rendering the device useless in the country (if there’s only one carrier that supports the device’s band).
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by naraic0o 8y ago
So if I'm understanding right, this isn't like LineageOS[0] for Android, which builds a system from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP)[1], but a "romhack", or modified system? Pity. I naïvely hope that running a full
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by naraic0o 8y ago
Enforcement of copyright seems more like the opposite of China, to be honest. I don’t believe the US allows freedom of intellectual property either, the US government have been shutting down torrent sites for years.
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by naraic0o 8y ago
They're only manufactured at the rate of obsolescence though. If people don't feel the need to upgrade due to a lack of software updates or their current device slowing due to increased requirements of newer versions of their OS,
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by naraic0o 8y ago
The article claims that the hardware contained no "OS" and that all discs were self-contained full-linked OSes.
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by naraic0o 8y ago
the spring 2013 edition of cis194[0] seems to be the most commonly recommended from previous threads here. due to its popularity a quick web search leads to a lot of secondary learning resources if you get stuck. i'm currently most of