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Re:The Day AppGet Died by tracker1 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:42PM (#23332479)
Of course with all/most US routers generally taking only signed ROMs, it's mostly useless to even have the code.

I wish they'd just create something closer to tomato than the flashy, less useful interfaces.

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Re:The Day AppGet Died by colejohnson66 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:43PM (#23332831)
That problem is called TiVoization. It’s addressed with the 3rd version of the GPL. Sadly, Linus is adamantly against that clause.
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Re:The Day AppGet Died by tracker1 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @08:12PM (#23344737)
Unfortunately, it's come out from the FCC, not just the hardware companies in this case, and it really sucks... Raally need to drain the swamp in the FCC.
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Re:The Day AppGet Died by chii on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:02AM (#23333259)
> Linus is adamantly against that clause.

oh i didnt know he was adamant against the clause - i thought that he didn't want to force it upon the many existing users of linux.

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Re:The Day AppGet Died by colejohnson66 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:14AM (#23333322)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

He also has refused to release any of his projects under GPLv3 (or even “v2 or later”).

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Re:The Day AppGet Died by kasabali on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:29PM (#23354458)
Which is too bad because CDDL is compatible with GPLv3 thus that would make integration of ZFS possible
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