____/ chrisv on Wednesday 23 January 2008 14:59 : \____
> Thufir wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:56:26 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> It looks as though WP will
>>> go v3 some time in the future, but I had to argue with Tivo apologists,
>>> who in turn seemed like they simply didn't like the GNU philosophy _in
>>> general_, just as Stallman used to warn.
>>
>>
>>To me, what Tivo did is an ok compromise. Their product, as envisioned,
>>cannot be entirely FOSS. they need some sort of business model.
>>
>>They're still distributing Linux.
>>
>>Hypothetical: I doubt that even the GPLv3 would really stop the
>>*problem*, tivoization, which it's meant to fix. Why couldn't Tivo
>>simply come up with a close source app to sit on top of Linux? Would
>>that not work?
>
> I also see nothing wrong with the Tivo situation.
I've never realised why they didn't negotiate this before finalising. I'm just
surprised people focus on just this one aspect (among others) of the new
licence. I haven't much against Tivo either, but if it's going to become very
widespread, it would be nice to stop is early on (before it becomes the norm,
which is unlikely anyway).
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