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It's somewhat pragmatic for the Linux developers. Support a stable kernel API probably wouldn't be that expensive. It's clearly a political decision against writing close source code that does anything low level.

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I am not sure why the comment is being downvoted - thats exactly what it is, a political decision to force companies to produce open drivers.

Because of this unsubstantiated and baseless claim:

> Support a stable kernel API probably wouldn't be that expensive

How is it clear?

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