alt Hacker NewsIt’s a funny state of the world that the flagship hobbyist “open source” development boards now both contain products from such hobbyist-hostile chip companies as Qualcomm and Broadcom!
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pjmlp • yesterday at 1:33 PM
Just like the Linux kernel has plenty of contributions from the companies that get as much hate as possible from FOSS communities.
Turns out there isn't adoption success without compromises.
i guess that you have to make compromise somewhere
The Fairphone 5 used a QCM6490, a qualcomm industrial chip with a 10y support timeline
The Fairphone 6 uses a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 with ane stimated 3-4 years of support
At least for the 5 the compromise was motivated, in the second case i just don't feel like the low performance is a worthwhile compromise.