That's a good read! You never really think about how the company who made your cell phone, or car, or tractor, or whatever feel about the stuff once you bought it. I 100% agree; once you bought it, it is yours. As long as you don't copy and distribute the code on it, you really SHOULD be able to do what you want with it. I run custom software on my phone, have modified my Apple TV, run custom software on the routers in my house, and couldn't be happier. Who am I hurting? No one. The company still got their money when I bought the hardware, I just made it better for me with aftermarket software. Yet I'm sure I could be tossed into some court and fined for some BS. Who gets hurt in this equation? Joe six-pack aka the consumer. This world today, yeesh. Just want to crawl into a time machine and go back 50 years some days.
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