[191932] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Oct 3 22:58:24 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 22:58:18 -0400
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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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