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From "Happy Hacking" to "Screw You"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-we're-sad dept.

tquid writes "Trying to bridge the digital divide in Canada's poorest postal code, a principled group of hackers adopt "open source"-based technology spun off from an MIT project. Then the terms on the hardware are changed, and changed again, and then firmware to lock out the frustrated group's software is installed, screwing them out of their investment and many hours of development work."

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  1. Anyone know the details of the MIT agreement? by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wasn't this was originally developed as an open source project at MIT? I imagine their original agreement with MIT probably precluded this very thing (locking it down). If not, I would be very disappointed with MIT.

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