On Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:33:38 -0700, Matthew Petach said: > 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.
Turn it on its ear. Liability only attaches if the product is closed-source. Sure, that leaves us with lots of open-source light bulbs that are basically abandonware 5 years later, but at least at that point it's more possible to fix any remaining issues...
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