[Hamara-devel] FCC wants to lock down our hardware - Save WiFI

[shirish]

Hi all,

See https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi

While I'll probably have a look at the rules over the week-end from what 
is being shared (overview) it seems that there would be no more rooted 
Android phones, no more rooted anything, no OpenMIPS, no nothing. It is 
imperative that we stop them. How can we do that.

While by ourselves, we can't do anything, but if we know anybody in the 
U.S., the States then we could pass on this message to them. Many 
Americans are aware of their civil rights and do pressure their local 
Congressman (like our M.P.'s) and hence it's possible that FCC backs 
out. But unless we make a hue and cry about it, they will not listen.

I hope, we can do our part. Feel free to cut, tweak, re-write, 
re-invent, re-anything but make sure that this gets across to Americans.

As of today, while most manufacturing is done in China or developing 
countries, the firmware IP is still the vanguard of American and 
European Interests.

Another thing to note, if the above happens, then you will surely have 
more restrictions on what you can put on your desktop and laptop, this 
would mean, no hamara, no *any* GNU/Linux distribution at all and of 
course no GNU/Linux kernel or any other free kernels etc.

Look forward to co-operation on the above.
-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org