in theory, the software developer (Meridian) could/would have to port their software to the ARM processor and get it populated in whatever SW repository (debian or whatever) that it is installed from. Meridian could say that restricting the architecture to Intel reduces the developers current & future commitments to things like fixing Sooloos core features and the CD import metadata server.

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