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tredre3today at 2:47 AM1 replyview on HN

> It will be interesting. because Qualcomm doesn’t give away anything for free, so any of those Linux Distro’s who thinks it’s going to be a free lunch? Are gonna be in for a surprise.

Care to postulate on what those nefarious reasons/surprises could be?


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Onavotoday at 4:35 AM

Imagine NVIDIA on steroids. Think bad documentation, opaque code, and everything being locked down. The customer gets squeezed for more money (especially egregious if you don't have enough scale they won't even bother engaging).