Fuchsia: a new operating system

Posted Apr 11, 2017 10:19 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Fuchsia: a new operating system by aryonoco
Parent article: Fuchsia: a new operating system

> Binary drivers are not going to go away. Qualcomm, Imagination Tech., MediaTek, Samsung all rely on closed binary drivers (and this will continue to do so due to patents).

Except it looks like the next big bun-fight over patents could kill them (the software version) completely!

One of the biggest pro-software-patent Supreme Court Judges seems to have come to the conclusion that software patents are illogical and cannot be justified. I don't think he quite got there in the last judgement, but it seems as though he is trying to think things through logically, and when dealing with software patents he's suddenly realised he's got his logic in a mobius twist.

Cheers,
Wol