[GTALUG] FCC "forces" TP-Link to enable open source on their router(s)

[David Collier-Brown]

On 01/08/16 10:19 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> Alternative solutions:
>
> a) customers must not be allowed to replace the software
> (pretty easy and cheap; works on existing hardware)
>
>
> Only (a) can be retrofitted on existing hardware.  TP-Link did the
> obvious thing.  I hate it (as a customer who actually bought one of
> their devices to run OpenWRT).  But it really is a choice between (a)
> and (z) on existing devices.
>
>
They seem to have done (a) and imposed a very bad configuration.

I'm at work right now, but will respond at length when I get a moment. I 
also expect to hear from Dave Taht just about any time now (He and Vint 
Cerf were the lead respondents form the open source community to the 
FCC: I was their editor)

--dave

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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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