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		summm on Nov 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research o... Developer time is paid only once. As soon as it is paid, the manufacturer loses out when he is not putting the spyware everywhere he can.

Talanes on Nov 25, 2021 [–]

The manufacturer is completely irrelevant to the development in this case though, so sod what they want.

Which is GPs point. Open source TV firmware means that the manufacturers motives are no longer the totality of the conversation.

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