Quote from: mikeywith on Today at 01:00:11 AM

Quote from: kano on Today at 12:20:00 AM

Canaan firmware up to A9 is all open source.
BM firmware up to S9 is all open source.

Those only make a very small percentage of all the gears in the world, besides, the S9 as is, is an old obsolete model and mostly dead, the newer versions have different firmware which isn't open-source, so it's safe to say that the vast majority of OEM firmware is closed source, I know you like to make it seem like that isn't the case, just to justify allowing them to use your pool, but that's for a different topic.

Alas the millions of S9 produced didn't magically disappear, even if you like to think they did.
They're almost certainly over 1/4 the world hash rate.
BM have the S9 code open source, if you can't find it, look harder (or try google, I hear people use that also)

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except S9 bos before they changed it to closed source and charged a fee.

Wrong, BOs is fully open-source, BOs+ is not, those are two different firmware, perhaps you should do some reading before claiming things that are far from accurate.

The '+' on the end is the same code with changes and additions.
Though you not being a coder, that may be difficult for you to understand.

This is actually one thing I'm curious to know with regards to open source code, and haven't spent much time looking into it.
It is clearly against the license for someone else to release a close source release of the original bos code, but does that apply to them also?
'bos+' is 'bos' open source + changes and additions ... now closed source.