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  • I started my embedded engineering journey by blinking an LED on a PIC microcontroller back in 2007. Maybe you can toss them an Arduino development board. Programming by itself could be boring and tedious, but seeing your program actually do things in the real world could be exciting, at least it was for me. There’s so much to branch to from there, everything from industrial automation to vehicle navigation to robotics.











  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlTheory vs Practice
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    10 months ago

    Same kernel, different userland. Point is, Google benefited from code others wrote. Most without compensation from Google. That’s what a fork is. And the license is sticky. Even if they fork it, Google simply cannot “un-GPL” parts of its code that were originally licensed under it. They have to make it available to others, legally.

    Check your phone yourself. You’ll find several mentions of open source licenses in the system info section.



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    There’s an entire operating system running most servers, smartphones, and embedded devices in the world right now that was created this way under a special license designed to promote code sharing and cooperation. It’s famous enough that I probably don’t have to mention it here. Anybody can use it, anybody can contribute.