Yes- pretty much. The problem is that the FCC is mandating manufacturers lock
down devices such that only the manufacturer can install an operating system
on the device. If the user trys to do it they will fail because they don't
have the keys to do so.
ThinkPenguin and myself have been very very active in fighting this. We're
funding a campaign against this and we've been advertising the problem to our
customers (you can actually go to libre.thinkpenguin.com and see that for
yourself). I've also posted the same issue several times on the Trisquel
forms. We've gotten a massive amount of publicity for the effort and it's
basically taken on a life of its own now. There are *many many many* people
participating now.
Quite frankly Josh (FSF), Eric (prplfoundation), one of the people involved
with bufferbloat, myself, and a few other people were instrumental in getting
this off the ground. Now there are multiple groups and dozens of
organizations and people behind the effort to undo the problem. I'm only
playing a tiny tiny role in all this right now (fortunately). I spent the
past couple months focused on this and now there are a lot of other very
active people of which have pretty much taken over.
I'm still working on media a little. Though other people have taken over a
lot of this now (in the past couple weeks). I'm (as part of ThinkPenguin)
left mostly funding a good part of it now (ie funding the publicity).
