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Having government-locked software of any sort is not freedom.
by wyager 11y ago
Having government-locked software of any sort is not freedom.
- cpncrunch 11y agoIt's only the radio that has to be locked. Why do you need the freedom to reprogram the radio (not talking about the router)?
- wyager 11y agoWhy do you need the freedom to reprogram your computer? The main reason is "because I want to".
- SolarNet 11y agoIn this case the radio is not the computer. The fair balance here is to lockdown the radio, but not the chips that run the software that uses it.
- wyager 11y agoYou didn't answer my question. Why do you need the freedom to reprogram your computer? Any answer to that also justifies my desire to be free to reprogram my radio.
- gpvos 11y agoEven the FSF is willing to compromise on that, as long as the locked software is hardware-locked and totally unchangeable by anything and anyone (including things like over-the-air updates), so it can be considered part of the hardware, and as long as it does not have access to main memory or can otherwise interfere with the free-software part of the system.