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		bsder 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company Building an OS is easy and straightforward. Now let's make that OS talk to a graphics card--whoops, no Nvidia for you, peon! An OS isn't a problem. Hardware support on an OS--that's a huge problem.

quectophoton 4 months ago | [–]

Take for example FreeBSD, it's not mainstream but also not too obscure, they get some funding through the FreeBSD foundation, and yet wifi drivers are still an issue.

democracy 4 months ago | [–]

And then make people want to write for (and make money off)

lmz 4 months ago | [–]

(The Windows Phone problem)

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