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open source that requires a commercial license. and the drivers link to a repo that 404. think i will pass.


It gets even worse, looks like their driver makes calls to google analytics.[1] I'd stay away. The README doesn't even mention it, and the promise that "your personal data will never be shared, sold, or distributed in any form." certainly sounds misleading when you consider this.

[1] https://github.com/wheaney/XRLinuxDriver/blob/main/src/plugi...



Which is particular odd to have a publicly available GPL repo. For this project, it looks like anyone could just comment out those sections of code that check for a license and redistribute. Or is there another binary somehow required and wasn’t clear in my 2 minutes of searching?


Which link? All the links I could find worked.




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