[kwlug-disc] FCC Rules Block use of Open Source

[Bob Jonkman]

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Whatever DRM is applied to routers &c, someone will crack it soon
enough, OpenWRT, DD-WRT and Tomato will all work again, and then we
all become criminals.

- --Bob.

Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>          Phone: +1-519-635-9413
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On 12/09/15 01:37 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> There is now a campaign to persuade the FCC to reverse their stance
> on locking router firmware, which will prevent people from flashing
> their own OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, ...etc.
> 
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi
> 
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:01:59PM -0400, Joseph Wennechuk
>> wrote:
>>> http://www.itsmypart.com/fcc-rules-block-use-of-open-source/
>> 
>> I'm glad they linked to Doctorow's piece. He called this
>> exactly.
>> 
>> I am much less sanguine than Chris is about this.
>> 
>> -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
>> 
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