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Well, you have to pay for new android phone every couple of years, otherwise your out of date android firmware will be hacked by hundreds of RCE. You being tracked and targeted without possibility of refusal. Tour phone is not yours. This has happened because Torvalds let hardware manufacturers to tivoize kernel. This has happened “beCaUSE it wASN't FreEEE as freedom rights but as a cheese in mouse trap"

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Arguably Linux would not have grown as ubiquitous if it's license didn't have the plugin loophole. Perhaps a BSD, Minix, or another would have arisen instead.

Or it would just be a Windows monopoly ecosystem. Without that loophole perhaps no open source unix-alike product would have been able to out compete Microsoft in the server space which is what lead to it's viability as core of a phone OS.

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