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Wondering - when that happens - if their firmware is open source but monitored for ad targeting should we be OK with it?
by macns 10y ago
Wondering - when that happens - if their firmware is open source but monitored for ad targeting should we be OK with it?
- wolfgke 10y agoFreedom 1 of the FSF is (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html): "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish" In this sense you should be able to change the firmware (since it is open source in the sense of the OSI definition) and remove the monitoring for ad targeting. If this is not possible, Google's firmware is not open source (see https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd).
- akerro 10y agoopensource != free software