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And thus the success of BSD-style licensing is thrown into sharp relief. (Also the fact that you or I can go use it as much as we want for free and do whatever we want to it.)
I honestly have to strongly disagree with that. Desktop Linux is more complex, more fragile, and more choice-less than 10-15 years ago. It might have a bit better hardware compatibility... but even back then it would run on just about anything.
> Librem and Pine64 are doing great work in the mobile Linux space on the hardware side
But can you actually use them as a phone? Can you use all (or even any) of the apps that people want to use?
> They'll never grow to billions of users, nor should they. The tech industry's "grow massive or the product is worthless" mindset is pathological, in my opinion.
Without that, they'll also never get the things that people want their phones to do.