Comment by the_gipsy
16 hours ago
I don't think the article was absolutist, binary, at all.
The issue is that for a lot of things, there is exactly zero foss options. The problem is not, and the article doesn't imply, that there should be a 100% foss, so that foss finally "wins".
Can you provide some examples of things for which there are zero FOSS options?
Read the article, it has examples.
Modern TVs are a simple one.
You can't control any of them fully. Most you can't root.
Hopefully this lawsuit will be won by SFC, if it is, then anyone can sue their TV maker for the Linux kernel sources for their device and access to install modified versions of it, then replace their TV OS with AOSP/etc, or KDE Plasma Bigscreen or similar on a standard Linux distro.
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html https://plasma-bigscreen.org/
But there is a simple alternative here: don't connect your TV to the Internet, use it as a dumb monitor for a FOSS streaming box (Linux PC or Lineage Android TV among others).
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