Messages in this thread | | | From | Hans-Jürgen Koch <> | Subject | Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:22:26 +0200 |
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Am Montag 18 Juni 2007 02:56 schrieb Alexandre Oliva:
> > Anyhow, AFAIK software in ROM is not non-Free Software. That it's > impossible to modify/replace/whathaveyou it is not the result of a > restriction that someone is imposing on you. > > It's the difference between "you can't fly because you don't have > wings" and "you won't fly because I've tied your wings". With tied > wings, you're evidently not free to fly any more. But if the problem > is that you don't have wings, if you're free and sufficiently > creative, you may be able to invent baloons, airplanes, rockets et al > and overcome the barriers that nature poses for you. >
So, if a manufacturer used a ROM instead of a flash memory with the intention to make software modifications impossible, then it is bad, and when he did it for economical reasons, then it is a "natural barrier"?
Your tied-up-wings comparison is simply not valid. Or, more precisely, you will usually not be able to tell whether you don't have wings or if they're tied. Hardware design decisions of a manufacturer should never be the subject of a software license.
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