[191930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Mon Oct 3 21:53:00 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <CAEmG1=ot9k9j9HiMgjDFpo8oj6n=AYrSF28Xdsjv3n4YK20T4g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 18:52:49 -0700
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Oct 3, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> 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.=
