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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Intel's co-CEO claims retailers say Qualcomm-powered PCs have
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On 2024-12-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-19 à 19:28, chrisv a écrit :
>> CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> Le 2024-12-19 à 15:34, chrisv a écrit :
>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Linux is the only platform that offers a full suite of software native for
>>>>> both ARM and x86 (both 32- and 64-bit). Nobody else does.
>>>>
>>>> Payware vendors can't compete with the efficiency of FOSS.
>>>
>>> They can: they eventually implement features that the open-source world
>>> will copy and implement later in a more rudimentary form.
>> 
>> So where's the payware OS and software for, say, Raspbarry Pi?
>
> Where are the profits in producing an operating system and software for 
> such hardware?

Open source is not profit driven. The Raspberry Pi computers make a lot of 
money for small start-up companies. But they're making hardware, not 
software.

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
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