• MudMan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You guys really just said that Linux and open source licenses are “a castle on sand” and they should “have done it like Windows”?

    If you start running before anybody notice you may be able to make it. Go. Just. Go.

    But no, seriously, that’s why I prefer Android. I have versions of it customized to handheld consoles, single board computers and a bunch of other stuff. I don’t want to be out there buying licenses for my platforms from Google.

    Samsung is the biggest phone manufacturer in the world, Sony is a massive corporation.

    If people want to sell phones the least they can do is have the software staff to back it up by doing maintenance. If I wanted an iPhone I’d buy an iPhone.

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      1 year ago

      Look I love open-source but the whole lack of a separate binary driver layer is dumb and is why Windows can support a machine for over a decade while Android has terrible device-specific support windows and you don’t just get your new OS version from Android Update, you have to get it from your vendor.

      Imagine if you owned a Dell and couldn’t run Windows Update, but had to use Dell Update instead?

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        1 year ago

        I have an ASUS.

        So… no need to imagine anything.

        Also, I’m not an OS engineer, but that wouldn’t require a closed source, privately licensed OS, would it? Just to not build it as a Linux offshoot, I suppose.