Post #1890223
2026-04-26 13:27 UTC
@uecker so we made circle... You repeated earlier thought. There's no shaping by American tech interests in this matter. Just American tech does not pay for these drivers and no one else paid, either. Paid as with money or their time. It's not the American interests who decided to drop these drivers.
And it's really not that difficult to maintain all of removed stuff. One doesn't have to be even skilled... I was doing it, e.g. NFC. It requires only one, the most scarce resource: time.
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@uecker@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 14:15
@krzk You did not address my early point, which was that if development is mainly driven by specific parts of the industry, then it makes it more costly for others to contribute (in time or money). This is why I think the "you should just contribute" argument is too simplistic. But if you are saying it is still very easy to step up for volunteers with limited time and take over maintenance of a driver, then I am happy to concede that this does not apply to the kernel.