On 01/08/16 10:19 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

Alternative solutions:

a) customers must not be allowed to replace the software
(pretty easy and cheap; works on existing hardware)


Only (a) can be retrofitted on existing hardware.  TP-Link did the
obvious thing.  I hate it (as a customer who actually bought one of
their devices to run OpenWRT).  But it really is a choice between (a)
and (z) on existing devices.

They seem to have done (a) and imposed a very bad configuration.

I'm at work right now, but will respond at length when I get a moment. I also expect to hear from Dave Taht just about any time now (He and Vint Cerf were the lead respondents form the open source community to the FCC: I was their editor)

--dave

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