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Title: Why are AntMiners' firmware closed-source / non-GPL? Post by: Geremia on April 14, 2015, 08:12:55 PM Why are AntMiners' firmware closed-source / non-GPL? What does Bitmain have to lose by making the source open?
(cf. the Bitcoin StackExchange question (http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/36914/4334)) Title: Re: Why are AntMiners' firmware closed-source / non-GPL? Post by: cooldgamer on April 25, 2015, 05:22:34 PM Maybe it's an attempt at security through obscurity? They're essentially money printers, so if somebody were able to find a way to compromise them there would be a nice payout. There's no automatic update feature built in and not everybody would bother to update the firmware for something that they rarely interact with.
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