Re: [Trisquel-users] Will open firmware exist in 5 years? Linux 4.2 related.

[chris]

I won't advocate for this at the moment as its self-defeating and thinking  
"we can just make our own hardware and smuggle it in" isn't a feasible  
option. You need cooperation that we already don't have. If we did we'd have  
more free software firmware- or at least leaks of the code. We don't. And the  
way things are going what you can get around *without a lot of reverse  
engineering effort put in* potentially won't be possible tomorrow because of  
locks (signature checking of the firmware). Unless you have some magical way  
of getting those keys leaked even if we can reverse engineer it (we can't,  
not really, not on a wide scale anyway) then the resulting code won't run  
anyway.

The law is getting worse around the world. There is news that not only is the  
FCC looking to further force manufacturers to lock down wifi, and thus pretty  
much everything in practice, equivalent organizations (Canada and Europe) in  
other countries have identical or similar rules they are working on.