Without reading the contents of the patches there is no way to know how significant or insignificant those changes are.
That being said, I think it is important to consider: in a hypothetical world where the BSDs and other copyfree operating systems didn't exist we *still* wouldn't get those patches from Sony. The alternative is not "we have to use Linux now and make our work public", it is "we have to use one of the many commercially available operating systems". Just look at all the devices that ship with QNX.
That being said, I think it is important to consider: in a hypothetical world where the BSDs and other copyfree operating systems didn't exist we *still* wouldn't get those patches from Sony. The alternative is not "we have to use Linux now and make our work public", it is "we have to use one of the many commercially available operating systems". Just look at all the devices that ship with QNX.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX