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Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman


From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon () orthanc ca>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 18:52:49 -0700


On Oct 3, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach () 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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