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bigfatkittentoday at 1:39 AM0 repliesview on HN

Open source isn’t going to happen on any real scale, because pretty much any non-trivial commercial product is going to have a ton of third party IP that the manufacturer has no right to give you.

What manufacturers should be required to do, at a minimum, is remove any impediment to you running whatever alternative software you choose.