Thread: What is aegis [MSSF] and how does it affect Free Software development?
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buchanmilne is offline buchanmilne
2011-09-15 , 09:31
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Originally Posted by momcilo View Post
This is controlled through contract.
In *some* countries.

You are still obliged to pay.
In *some* countries.

Locking a phone to a particular SIM is a form of monopoly.
That only exists in *some* countries.

BTW: they don't need to lock up the phone itself for SIM enforcement. It is enough to use the GSM module for that purpose.
So no modern phones subsidised by contracts are able to make phone calls (which is where the operator is hoping to recover their subsidy) via any means but GSM?

I don't believe somebody else should decide what is run/played on my device.
Then buy your device from someone who allows you that freedom.


I don't want a mainstream device.
Then stay with your N900 or Neo.

I would accept a device which *can*, but doesn't always need to, enforce "platform security", in order to be competitive in certain restrictive markets which have a huge influence on device adoption, *if* I have the choice to disable the platform security.

Again, this is not a technical issue. If you don't like the fact that your operator only provides sim-locked devices (note, this is check done before checking if open mode is allowed, so no unlocked phone can be prevented from being used in open mode), then I fail to see why you use this operator.

If your country allows all operators to sim-lock all phones forever, well, I think you have bigger problems ...
 

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