An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git (Tag1)

Posted May 1, 2021 0:24 UTC (Sat) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git (Tag1) by rgmoore
Parent article: An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git (Tag1)

> In theory, the GPL could help out there, since it would give motivated users access to the code for their system, which they could theoretically merge themselves. In practice, it's a rare system that has enough motivated and technically competent users to make it happen.

That assumes the manufacturer ever provided the source code to begin with.

And even tier-one manufacturers (eg Google themselves) still ship some binary blobs.