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Let’s be honest, if you are building an OS intended for non-nerds, you ‘d be better off scrapping the trainkwreck that is X.org altogether and start anew, or if you can’t do that, just modify Android. There are many advantages to BSD, but GPU support is not one of them. You don’t pick freebsd for a technical advantage if you’re building an OS for desktops. Sure, NVIDIA has a binary blob available but AMD support is bad and nothing past haswell is supported on the intel side. However, if you’re building a stock OS, you’re looking at a decade behind tech with video card support on FreeBSD.
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With a game console, you’re going to have to write a whole lot of custom code and libraries for graphics anyway. There is the big catch of graphics support. If we shift to userspace libraries, I have seen companies actively avoiding GPL code to avoid the licensing requirements.
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Most corporate linux users simply don’t do kernel level work, but if it weren’t for the fact that the linux GPL license doesn’t apply to independent userspace projects, there would probably be more corporate push-back against it because it conflicts with their proprietary business model. However in my experience those are strictly userspace projects where GPL requirements aren’t imposed on the company’s code. Linux is favored for it’s better support and popularity. Yea I’ve seen the same thing where Linux is considered but FreeBSD is not. I suspect this happens in lots of situations where FreeBSD would be a perfectly valid alternative choice. That was purely because it worked and we understood it. When tasked with updating an embedded product from DOS in a previous job, we went with Linux. Everyone more or less knows of and/or uses Linux, but FreeBSD is more niche. I imagine much comes down to mindshare and available institutional expertise, rather than licensing or technical merit. so it seems unlikely to me that an alternate license would be in the cards for linux. A developer could have reused GPL code (from linux or elsewhere) and in any other context nobody would care, but in this specific context this developer doesn’t have the right to re-license the code even though he is recorded as the contributor under source control. But even then specific contributions at some point in time may be very difficult to isolate after many years of evolution.
Theoretically, adding a new license would require reaching out to every contributor and getting them to agree or otherwise remove their code. This has been a roadblock even to GPLv3 adoption because linux doesn’t allow for “GPLv2 or newer”. This means that nobody, not even Linus himself, is able to obtain/sell the linux kernel under a non-GPLv2 license because he doesn’t own the kernel.
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While some projects require contributors to grant full rights to a not-for-profit organization existing to oversee the project, the only requirement for linux contributors is to comply with GPLv2. However the code contributed to linux is strictly under GPLv2. You are right that sometimes a proprietary company can avoid the open source requirements by licensing the code under an alternate proprietary license in exchange for a fee.
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Android is also a far more capable platform for retro console emulation, which is admittedly niche but has a growing number of fans.Sony could have always licensed the linux kernel and done what they liked with it as well… Still, the number of high-quality games on Android is growing with recent additions like Final Fantasy VIII: Remastered, Genshin Impact, and Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated. The number of AAA games available on the Switch - both from Nintendo and from third-party studios - far exceeds the number of titles available on Android. The biggest issue, of course, is the difference in size between Android’s and Nintendo’s gaming libraries. Therefore, Qualcomm’s expertise as a chipset manufacturer can help it offer higher performance than the Nintendo Switch and the Switch Lite for a lower price. The NVIDIA Tegra chip that powers the Switch is old and has a relatively underpowered CPU even compared to most mid-range Qualcomm SoCs.
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If Qualcomm plunges into the portable gaming console segment, we may see a viable alternative to the Nintendo Switch for reasons other than price.
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