[Linux] for the rest of us on FCC killing free software

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Chris

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I did a talk on how the FCC rules are going to kill free software. If anybody is interested the show was published today here:

http://podnutz.com/lftrou190

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Embracer245
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Well, so this is about the FCC killing free software and supporting money giants like Microsoft and Apple, Right?

tomlukeywood
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I don’t know if there specificity trying to support money giants

but this is about the FCC killing free software yeah

Chris

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It's about the FCC rules which would ban any level of libre or third party firmware/operating systems from basically all types of devices. Apple and Microsoft operate on another playing field so it's not even comparable. The net result would be proprietary software everywhere- or at least not software you can modify and use because of the locks. It would be like having the source code, but the device being read-only.

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I think they, try to reduce/destroy alternative networks like "Freifunk" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk) or similar networks.

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How would tbis affect Android, which uses the Linux kernel and is licensed under Apache?