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>Instead, along the same lines as right to repair, such products should be required to release the firmware source code. Releasing the source code doesn't nece
by spideymans 5y ago
>Instead, along the same lines as right to repair, such products should be required to release the firmware source code.
Releasing the source code doesn't necessarily mean that people would be legally permitted to modify or even utilize that source code.
- foobar33333 5y agoIt also doesn't mean anyone will actually support it. I have plenty of devices which you can flash your own OS on but eventually the hobby community gets bored and no one is left supporting it. You also have the problem of getting every user of the product to flash some custom OS on their hard drive when they likely don't know how or don't know why they should care.