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I don't think having a great liberally-licenced microkernel-based OS is as good for the world in a practical sense compared to forcing every Android and Chromebook vendor to publish the changes they made to a copyleft monolithic kernel. I can totally understand being worried that the rise of Fuchsia would result in a dark age for running alternative open source OSes on cheap consumer smartphones, SBCs and ARM64 laptops.

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Vendors don’t publish source code now lol

Some do. If the current state of things is what happens when vendors are required to publish their source by law, imagine how much worse it would be if they weren't - there'd be nothing. What little we have of FOSS OSes on cheap consumer devices would be gone. Imagine no LineageOS, no community-supported postmarketOS devices, no installing mainline Linux on old Chromebooks etc.

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