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> If you don't see how removing legal, organizational, and technical obstacles to controlled devices helps this modern policy, I cannot help you.

As spijdar observes, with FreeBSD the legal and technical obstacles were removed long ago. I find the claims of doom to be so overworked in your post that I am not clear as to what organisational obstacles you are talking about: can you calm down and express this point more clearly?



The argument would apply in the same way FreeBSD if google tried to move android to FreeBSD. The point is not that a kernel with such license exist, but rather that a major platform is moving from a GPL kernel to a non-GPL kernel.

This will surely harm linux phones in the future.

Whether it is the end of the world is something I do not know, but it is not a net positive for software and hardware freedom on mobile devices.


> with FreeBSD the legal and technical obstacles were removed long ago

One obstacle is still there: it has too low market share.


That depends how much you count macOS and PlayStation as part of that market share.


In the context of this discussion, they do not seem relevant to me.




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