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Libre firmware?

Libre firmware?

Posted Feb 9, 2026 10:55 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
In reply to: Libre firmware? by Cyberax
Parent article: The future for Tyr

To me complexity sounds more like an argument for open sourcing it since complexity naturally prevents a competitor from copying your solutions in a reasonable amount of time so there is really no trade secret angle to be used to justify closed source code bases.


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Libre firmware?

Posted Feb 9, 2026 11:05 UTC (Mon) by Conan_Kudo (subscriber, #103240) [Link]

Probably the real reason is that they don't own the IP and cannot reasonably get the rights for it to be open even if they wanted to.


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