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Re:Hacking BIOS chips isn't just the NSA's domain anymore by ghaff on Saturday March 21, 2015 @09:41AM (#9242703)
>At these moments I remember Stallman wasn't completely crazy and wish Linux was licensed under GPLv3 so that the phone I bought wasn't tivoized.

In which case Google would most likely simply have used a BSD variant as Apple did.

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Re:Hacking BIOS chips isn't just the NSA's domain anymore by indians_pro on Saturday March 21, 2015 @11:03AM (#9242894)
Ha. The strange thing about stallman is that his words of 'craziness' magically convert to words of wisdom, but there is always a delay in that process, which can go up to decades. This happens _always_. Joke's on us, despite knowing about this phenomenon, we never adjust for it.
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