Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:50:41 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization (was: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3) |
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> > In practical terms it does since a recall/replacement in the event of > > rule changes is a bit impractical > > Indeed. But that's not a legal requirement, it's an economic reason.
Cynical Economists would argue 'legal requirements' are just changes to the cost of the various economic options. Sometimes when I look at Microsoft's approach to various cases it seems they think that way too.
> denying the user of the computer the freedom to run modified > versions of the Free Software in it, by not sharing information as > to how it could be accomplished.
That's a nice definition but one I can see being sort of abusable depending how you read it. We head ever more into the disposable computer era where as a vendor putting the code on ROM is cheap and upgrades don't matter (throw it away get a new one).
I can tell you how to upgrade it ("you can't") yet I as the manufacturer can issue new units with modified code so I still control it even though it is meant to be "free" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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