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ACCount37yesterday at 5:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

One of the very few genuinely bad takes Linus had.

Bootloader unlocking should be a basic consumer right, and if Linux went GPLv3, it would be closer to reality.


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kube-systemyesterday at 6:40 PM

I think expecting software licenses to enforce your rights outside of the realm of software is a pretty bad take. I think Linus's take is quite solid: "I give you my source code, you give me your changes back, and we're even". There are a lot of us who don't think that FOSS should be weaponized as a poison pill to enact the authors worldview on topics outside of the realm of software alone.

If it should be a consumer right, why limit it only to devices certain types of software? Why not consumer protection law that applies to all devices? I think software licenses are the wrong tool for this problem.

There's a lot of crazy crayon licenses out there that try to fix the whole world by tacking on a whole lot of restrictions to their software licenses, prohibiting use for a long list of reasons... to me it sounds like a bunch of newspeak, as if "more restrictions = more freedom"

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blellyesterday at 5:58 PM

It’s not Linus Torvalds’ duty to make bootloader unlocking a reality.

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