The answer to that might be not to buy ARM for handling your data
If manufacturers go this route, the counter is obvious: boycott their hardware, the same way I refuse to buy a smartphone because I distrust not only their software but also their firmware. Some will be hacked and jailbroken, some will get mod chips, but why bother so long as hardware that can be freely used exists, even if you have to buy it used. There are enough Linux users who don't like walled gardens to make a "RHEL-only" device a dud on the sales floor, and if they want to use Linux moving any part of the kernel that they simply HAVE to use to GPL 3 would shut them down outright. Too bad relicensing the entire kernel under GPL3 would be such a quagmire...
Originally posted by jbernardo
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