The reason behind Samsung's bootloader unlock ban is an EU law

4 ilsubyeega 4 8/4/2025, 4:26:44 AM sammobile.com ↗

Comments (4)

gnabgib · 36m ago
Discussion (42 points, 2 days ago, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765939

Related: Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8 (286 points, 7 days ago, 245 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44706409

like_any_other · 1h ago
I was suspicious of it given that the website looks like Samsung's mouthpiece, but there seems to be truth to it:

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) dubbed the new directive the "Radio Lockdown Directive". The FSFE has claimed that the directive will make it harder for small businesses to develop routers, since they will be tivoised and therefore GPLv3 incompatible. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Equipment_Directive_(201...

cuu508 · 27m ago
Anyone has a pointer to the relevant part in directive 2014/53/EU?
ilsubyeega · 1h ago
I cannot see any relevant discussion related to this, so I'm putting this in.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765939 (1 day ago, flagged)