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torginusyesterday at 7:18 PM1 replyview on HN

Linux distros are shipped as binaries yet you can still build them from source, and are certainly not controlled by one company, I don't see why that would be the case here.


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inigyouyesterday at 8:17 PM

Would you require every website to come with architecture-independent source code? What happens if it doesn't match the compiled binary? Or would the browser compile it every time?

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