[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Curry) writes: > Linus and the other "open source" people aren't afraid. He even > makes fun of us for being afraid, and for whining about Tivo. Tivo, > of course, is unimportant. It wouldn't be worth paying attention to, > if it weren't the beginning of a trend with no definite endpoint. > > Today you can buy a PC and install whatever software you like, > including that which you wrote yourself, and use that to replace a > Tivo.
You can't buy a playstation and similar stuff and install whatever software you like. You need to have them "modded" which gets increasingly made harder and voids your warranty. The trend where software is unmodifiable by the user in spite of coming with source and being in rewritable memory is already becoming standard for new devices. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
