Ugh I don't know which is worse. Next timeline, portal gun.
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All I'm hearing is that we might be able to hack these devices and put full Linux on them.
All I'm hearing is a subscription to remove the adverts on the command line.
See, that's the situation where we just don't use them. I'm talking about wiping the original OS and putting something that's really FOSS in its place.
The author is exited but I'm not. I am not a big fan of corporations taking the free work of FOSS developers and turning it into a proprietary dystopia.
I think that having a strong public domain is good for everyone. For instance properties like Sherlock Holmes really took off once it was in the public domain and people could write spin-offs and whatnot without worry that a copyright lawyer would come along and sue them.
Linux is the same thing, Amazon using the kernel and stuff to build an OS on doesn't take anything away from anyone else who uses Linux as a desktop or server environment, and in fact can lead to some good pass back, even if it is just that the devices are easier to root. Take a look at the Open-wrt project, where Linksys built their router on top of a Linux kernel and it led to a whole ecosystem of open routers. People went out of their way to buy a WRT-42G just with the intent of rooting it, and Linksys got their money either way.
If it were anyone other than Amazon or Apple.
Speaking of which, isn't MacOS Linux based these days? How much have they contributed back? (Genuine question)
It's pretty annoying you replied to someone's nice, well thought out comment with your own bullshit. Then speculated about something you could have googled in 7 seconds max.
A quick search confirms that MacOS is based from proprietary BSD UNIX code. It is not compatible with Linux
Curious if it'll be opensource and mobile linux distro. If Amazon gets into the mobile linux game, the mobile phone market might change radically.
You seem confused. Amazon is in the business of stealing open source project in order to sell them as AWS services, not making them.
Hahahaha cool, Linux with ads and tracking and all the spyware you could ever want.
Cool. Another OS to avoid.
They want to harvest the data, without Google's control, and give none to Google.