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One should never use the vendor software shipped on a device, always replace it with a FOSS distro that respects your privacy. Hopefully the Vizio lawsuit that
by pabs3 9mo ago
One should never use the vendor software shipped on a device, always replace it with a FOSS distro that respects your privacy.
Hopefully the Vizio lawsuit that is going to trial soon will help make that more possible.
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
Two recent LWN articles about that:
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1052842/52c45fb8bcc3fade/ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1052842/52c45fb8bcc3fade/
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1052734/5903e175673caeef/ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1052734/5903e175673caeef/
- shakna 9mo agoThe tentative ruling in that case isn't overly hopeful, with issues 2 & 3 probably going to be dismissed.
- pabs3 9mo agoSFC say that was a ruling on something they didn't even ask for: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/24/vizio-msa-irrelevant-ruling/ https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/24/vizio-msa-irrelev... https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-ruling-in-favor-of-sfc/ https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-r...