Well that’s the problem. They segment more than they compete. They sure have to convince users to use their platform by having shows that people find interesting, but they don’t really share the shows. So each has their own little corner and they try to leverage FOMO.

Here is a guide from the GNU website: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html

Yes. But it’s despite.

I’d consider btrfs if they finally make their raid5/6 implementation stable. I want to work with multiple disks without sacrificing half of my storage.

If I’m not mistaken you can save keys in these chips so that they can not be extracted. You can only use the key to encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify by asking the chip to do these operations with your key.