4 ms·
Hmm. From the Firmware Liberation Project page[0]: "Second, depending on what subindustry (i.e., specific class of devices) seems most responsive to increased
by webmaven 6y ago
Hmm.
From the Firmware Liberation Project page[0]:
"Second, depending on what subindustry (i.e., specific class of devices) seems most responsive to increased enforcement activity and willing to provide compliant source releases quickly, we will launch, coordinate and fund an alternative firmware project for that class, or, if appropriate, merge our efforts with an existing alternative firmware project for that class of device."
It is hard to read that as anything but an incentive for vendors to be less responsive, in the hopes that the SFC focus their efforts elsewhere.
[0] https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liber...
- ramshorns 6y agoIt suggests that vendors would want alternative firmwares to be developed for the hardware they sell. Do you think they wouldn't want that?
- jobigoud 6y agoMost companies nowadays want to have total control on how users use their hardware. For many IoT things the product is in the patterns they collect when the device sends data home to "backup on the cloud".
- webmaven 6y agoThat entirely depends on whether the attractive profit margins are on the hardware itself, or adjacent (complementary) to it, in software or services tied to the hardware through the firmware.