Re: [Fsuk-manchester] A powerful argument for software freedom legislation?

[John Rooke]

Thanks for the feedback.

On 27/10/16 18:59, Chris Hilliard wrote:

Far easier just to use civil courts to pass the costs of a DDoS attack like this onto the manufacturer

Nothing easy about using the civil courts, especially if you're a small business.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Bob Mottram <address@hidden> wrote:

What could happen is that the government puts pressure on ISPs to become
the "cyberpolice" for your home network,

Not an appealing solution, I agree.

"the Tyrell solution" where
internet connected devices just stop working after a fixed number of
years,

At best, this has negative environmental implications

What I was wondering, perhaps naively, was whether it could be made mandatory for devices to be reprogrammable and for the source code to available.

John

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