[wyager]

Having government-locked software of any sort is not freedom.

[gpvos]

Even the FSF is willing to compromise on that, as long as the locked software is hardware-locked and totally unchangeable by anything and anyone (including things like over-the-air updates), so it can be considered part of the hardware, and as long as it does not have access to main memory or can otherwise interfere with the free-software part of the system.

[cpncrunch]

It's only the radio that has to be locked. Why do you need the freedom to reprogram the radio (not talking about the router)?

[wyager]

Why do you need the freedom to reprogram your computer?

The main reason is "because I want to".

[SolarNet]

In this case the radio is not the computer. The fair balance here is to lockdown the radio, but not the chips that run the software that uses it.

[wyager]

You didn't answer my question. Why do you need the freedom to reprogram your computer?

Any answer to that also justifies my desire to be free to reprogram my radio.