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That's a nice certification program. I'm glad that it exists and that there's a list of products that comply with it. I've saved it for later perusal.

But it reaches a wee bit further than I actually care about for something like a television:

> All the product software must be free software. The product software includes all software that the seller includes in the product, provides with the product, recommends for use in conjunction with the product, and steers users towards installation in the product.

I don't feel apologetic at all when I say that open-source just isn't very important to me at all when selecting a television. I do not care whether it is open or closed. I just don't want it to spy on me.

Being open does make it more inspectable for spyware, for sure, but as a realistic concept: I'm not going to be inspecting it myself, anyway. A third-party inspection or audit would be fine for me, and that kind of thing can happen without the source being available to me, myself.

The required open-source push seems kind of egalitarian.

I don't need the source code for wireless devices to understand that they've passed FCC certification testing. I don't need the schematics and code for my AV receiver to understand that the UL logo on the back of it means that it has been tested to show that it won't burn my house down or give me an electric shock.

I don't want to be a product certification testing lab when I grow up.

Fnoord | parent
I skimmed through the list. It is a couple of brands, none of it is recent hardware. Talos II (super expensive IBM Power workstation), TPE (not to be confused with TP-Link) networking stuff (old standards, like 1 gbit, 802.11n), some rebranded IBM/Lenovo X200, some old USB peripherals. There's nothing worthwhile on this list. No monitors or TVs (the topic at hand!). No keyboards (even though there is FOSS firmware for keyboards), except for I suppose X200. Not even Stallman's old MIPS laptop (Lemote Yeeloong) is on the list.

Linking this list is like saying you can live in a world without war in some remote cave where you have to eat mushrooms growing in it. Cool that exists (or not); but it isn't relevant. There's nothing worthwhile in the cave. No treasure trove.