[astrodust]

Theoretically being able to update your device and actually being able to update your device are two different things.

There's going to be a billion variants on every little IoT device in the future and all the best intentions and enthusiasm on the part of the free software community will not be enough to provide patches to all of them.

This is something that's the responsibility of the vendor, and the GNU software license could make that a requirement for using the software.

It's not about laws, it's about licensing. If they don't like the license they're free to use someone else's software.

Having inexpensive operating system software you can dump on a cheap device without license fees is both a great thing, and also what got us into this IoT hot mess.