[Discuss] Fwd: Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers | WIRED

[Rich Pieri]

On 10/1/2015 12:59 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> Are you seriously claiming that, in principle, the FCC has the authority to
> unilaterally steal Microsoft's IP by denying them the ability to sue
> vendors who use cracked copies of Windows in regulated devices?

Of course not. I'm asserting that when the FCC say a wifi router cannot 
use certain radio frequencies and the GPL says that the FCC cannot 
enforce this regulation on hardware that ships with GPL software then 
the GPL loses.

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Rich P.