On 11/5/2015 1:21 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
A problem for the makers of high priced products. But if you are a commodity router maker, your value is in price and reliability, not software uniqueness. So why not open up?
There are a few reasons I'm aware of. The most practical one is simply that they can't afford it. Every state in the Union has implied warranty laws that manufacturers must comply with. Some states, including Massachusetts, outright prohibit "as-is" sales. Meanwhile, most GPL software, including the Linux kernel, expressly comes "as-is" with no warranty whatsoever. Google and Verizon can afford to eat the costs of adding warranty support to unsupported code; not so much D-Link and TP-Link.
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