Originally posted by Luke_Wolf
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Once upon a time in the old days of FOSS the developers wanted their software tu run on as much as possible OSs or in your analogy: fit in as much as possible houses. Both, the *BSD and Linux houses, were treated equally and were fully functional, working, usable and livable houses "with all kinds of expansions and neat features".
Then some day the makers for e.g. the windows (ha!) decided to only support the Linux houses.
A window consist among other things of the frame and the glass. The *BSD houses (were forced to) keep the old frames and only one glass maker (nVIDIA) still supports at least one of these old frames in the *BSD houses.
Now another glass maker (AMD) announces the development of a new glass. Wouldn't it be a good idea to develop this new glass in a way, that it will fit also in the old frames of the *BSD houses?
If the glass maker of the new glass cares about the *BSD houses it would visit these houses and look how these old frames are designed so the new glass will fit easily into these old frames.
Yes, I know, the story above is simplified.
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