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Why do we have to jailbreak thins using opensource software? EU right to repair, should be extended to right to patch, hack, tinker.
by acd 4y ago
Why do we have to jailbreak thins using opensource software? EU right to repair, should be extended to right to patch, hack, tinker.
- bestham 4y agoThe EU is actively hindering consumers from getting into the radio of wifi-APs with the Radio Equipment Directive.
- zoobab 4y agoBlame the Germans, those were the ones responsible for the FCC Radio Lockdown. The EU imposed software radio lockdown, there was a public consultation about it where most of the answers from industry and users were negative, but they kept on pushing for it. The same kind of consultation happened in the US, with the same kind of ignorance.
- avidiax 4y agoSame thing with the FCC. We could have cooperative use of the airwaves and true open-source, open-hardware radios, but there's too much money to be made auctioning spectrum and assuring that most of it is is 99.99% unutilized. Would be horrible if people had cheap 5-10W handhelds that use advanced codecs, or could run 5mw of power on any part of the spectrum.
- execveat 4y agoAFAIK, for a long they were pretty hostile and there's still this webpage which asks a $45 wire transfer in order to receive a CD with open source components used in the routerOS: https://mikrotik.com/downloadterms.html https://mikrotik.com/downloadterms.html That might have changed now, but I still can't find an official repo. You could look for older versions like this: https://github.com/robimarko/routeros-GPL https://github.com/robimarko/routeros-GPL or try to contact them directly (or sue if you think you have a standing).
- JustFinishedBSG 4y agoI have asked for sources recently and they just sent me a link to a .tar the next day.