Comment by jacquesm
6 months ago
Just in the last couple of days:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568700
There are by now thousands of examples of this, I wonder why you would ask for an example, this is about as uncontroversial as the sun going up tomorrow.
The number of times that Linux distros, free software, has made my computer unusable, requiring me to manually fix it, is uncountable. Bugs from OS updates is still entirely possible even without updating firmware blobs.
To a driver whose car just died on I 405 in heavy traffic that is a distinction without a difference.
> that is a distinction without a difference
Yes, agreed, the entire idea of OTA updates to cars has a lot of bad consequences. No matter the license.
So when we analyze the entire position of the FSF, all three cases listed above, I don't think you actually agree with them. FSF isn't against updating firmware on the fly, they just want certain things when it happens. And those things won't improve safety.
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