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Originally Posted by giorgosmit View Post
Vendors are wary to the point of being phobic about FOSS and surrendering control to users. See the debacle with the locked bootloaders and software blobs on android handset manufacturers. Factor in the almost mccarthy-esque paranoia about tech secrets and patents, and I find it very hard to believe that a true FOSS OS (meaning truly GPL 3 compliant) would be viable in today's market. The big players would probably not even touch it.
Imagine the situation where Linux kernel goes GPL3 in future.

Some may choose to follow google and apple (fork existing project, if they are bold enough), more will choose to accept it (and continue business as usual), but none will start development from scratch, it is too late for that.

Besides, I think we are already off the topic.
 

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