Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman

Lyndon Nerenberg lyndon at orthanc.ca
Tue Oct 4 01:52:49 UTC 2016


> On Oct 3, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com> wrote:
> 
> If you hold the executives of the hardware manufacturer
> responsible for the software running on their devices,
> then the next generation of hardware from every
> manufacturer is going to be hardware locked to
> ONLY run their software.  No OpenWRT, no Tomato,
> no third party software that could be compromised
> and leave them holding the liability bag.

It's the closed software that is fscking everything up right now.  A little sunshine on the code base will go a long way towards those people not losing their Ferrari's after all.


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