“Tivoization” and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft

Re:“Tivoization” and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft by whoknowswhat11 on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:49PM (#27938246)

They are functional on hardware you build.

The source code is released.

No one disagrees there.

Buy unlocked hardware if you care about this. Most PC's can disable secure boot paths through BIOS settings unless you are in a corp environment and they lock that out.

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Re:“Tivoization” and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft by 20after4 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:52AM (#27938486)

We are quickly headed to a future where it won't be possible to buy unlocked hardware. It may not be long before (very nearly) 100% of the hardware on the consumer market is locked and it will only be able to acquire unlocked hardware through NDA agreement, huge costs or by "illegally" unlocking it via an exploit.

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Re:“Tivoization” and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft by djur on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:50AM (#27938481)

Locked hardware is itself objectionable, anti-consumer and anti-freedom. "Free software works in a narrowing ecosystem of semi-free hardware" is not an acceptable position for advocates of free software.

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Re:“Tivoization” and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft by bkallus on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:58PM (#27938275)

It isn't always possible to build my own hardware, especially in the embedded world. I buy unlocked hardware now, but I learned that lesson the hard way from Verizon and Samsung.

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