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Free is too expensive (Economist)Free is too expensive (Economist)Posted Apr 8, 2012 19:20 UTC (Sun) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136)In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by rqosa Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)
Also, one more thing: > > It's one thing to circumvent the bootloader and few unique components. It's another thing to port Linux to the hardware which has no public specification and which was never designed with Linux in mind. What about Rockbox, then? It was quite successful on hardware that was never meant to run it or any other OS/firmware other than the manufacturer's own one, and it only declined because (same as with PDAs) the smartphone/tablet boom has decreased the usage share of DAP devices.
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