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Comment Re:over 40 million ICE on the UK roads (Score 1) 153

Those batteries are going to last well over half a million miles before getting to 80% of original SoH

I'm not worried about the cells. I'm worried about the assemblies.

So I think weâ(TM)ll see used LFP EVs last many decades

We'll see. I've had lots of electronics fail in short order without having to work as hard as automotive parts, and I've also seen plenty of automotive electronics fail.

Comment Re: MIT vs GPL (Score 1) 156

Y'all are arguing over an unknowable but I find the root assertion credible, and here's why.

Linus had a choice of licenses to start with. He chose GPLv2 over BSD or MIT because he thought that the freedom aspect was desirable for such a project.

But by the time GPLv3 rolled around, Linus was no longer a student hobbyist. He was a professional, deriving a living from Linux, which was growing. He could see that his profits would likely be greater if he did not choose the freest license. At first he didn't care about appealing to corporations, then he did.

What changed? His compensation.

So yeah, the root assertion is 100% correct. Linus chose profit over freedom. That was his choice to make, and it's not surprising, but it's factual.

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