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Just declare that any router that can be flashed to OpenWRT without loss of functionality is allowed to be imported.
by bombcar 8mo ago
Just declare that any router that can be flashed to OpenWRT without loss of functionality is allowed to be imported.
- JumpCrisscross 8mo agoRequiring a one-click option to configure to open source would be a sensible across-the-board law.
- M95D 8mo agoI think we all know that's never going to happen.
- JumpCrisscross 8mo ago> we all know that's never going to happen Why? You'd need to get someone electorally useful involved. That, unfortunately, elimiates a lot of the nihilistic, holier-than-thou tech types. But that's pretty doable nowadays. You just need an electorally-relevant group of people on your side.
- M95D 8mo agoLike I said, not going to happen.
- sedawkgrep 8mo agoI don't understand why people with this opinion think it's worth the effort to post it.
- bombcar 8mo agoThere's a whole interesting physiology behind learned helplessness (of which this is a minor variation). In its defense, there's some practicality to it; we wouldn't say that a "get out of debt" plan that involved spending all available money on lottery tickets is worthwhile because "its not gonna happen". But defeatism is just a shortcut to say "I don't want to talk/think about it" in many cases. And in this one, if the US Gov't required that all routers purchased by any agency they could influence had the ability to run open source code it would certainly shake up the market.