The Free Software Federation spends so much of their energy fighting against commercial operating systems and expends almost zero effort on embedded systems whe

The Free Software Federation spends so much of their energy fighting against commercial operating systems and expends almost zero effort on embedded systems where catastrophic failure can equal death. Ironically one of the biggest problems with "Internet of Things" junk appliances is not that they run locked-down DRM-saddled operating systems, but that they run free ones like Linux. Linux itself isn't a problem, but that they're often bundled with tragically out of date versions of everything and there's never any thought given to how to update them. This malware incident is simply relating to a commercial operating system. Imagine when someone's hacked your lights by worming into the Linux install on the controller and demands $50 in Bitcoin to return control to you.