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

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

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?

I think it would take an act of Congress to amend contract law before they
could do that.


On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/1/2015 12:22 PM, John Abreau wrote:
>
>> The FCC ruling the GPL to be unenforceable in the context of regulated
>> devices would be essentially no different from the FCC ruling Microsoft's
>> licenses to be unenforceable in the context of vendors using cracked
>> copies
>> of Windows in regulated devices.
>>
>
> Perhaps, but there is no reason for the FCC to issue that ruling.
> Microsoft's license terms do not conflict with the FCC's proposal.
>
>
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