Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:57:19 -0600 | From | Chris Adams <> | Subject | Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders |
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Once upon a time, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said: >I believe that hardware that limits what their users can do will die just >becuase being user-unfriendly is not a way to do successful business. Yes, >I'm a damned blue-eyed optimist, but I'd rather be blue-eyed than consider >all uses of security technology to necessarily always be bad.
I haven't read the GPLv3 draft myself, but I would guess that private signing key language is aimed squarely at TiVo. They use a Linux kernel, but only kernel binaries signed by them will load (so you can't modify the kernel without jumping through hoops). Is that "user-unfriendly"? Probably so, but only to a small percentage of the users.
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