On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:25:19PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 6/14/07, Dave Neuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 6/14/07, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Nothing prevents you from taking tivos kernel >> > changes and building your own hardware to run that code on, and as such >> > the spirit of the GPL v2 seems fulfilled. >> >> Oh, come on: you're not serious, right? Something indeed prevents me >> -- the fact that I'm not a hardware manufacturer, I don't have fabs, >> outsource vendors to provide me w/ designs, ASICs, etc. Nor to I have >> the money to pay one-off prices for various components if they're even >> available in batches that small. >> > > So your objection here is that one needs additional resources to do > excersise their rights. Well, what about spending time and money to > get education to be able to do programming work? Being able to > understand C and hardware, etc is also an additional restriction > imposed on an average person. Do you advocate that every copy of GPL > program should be accompanied with an engineer who would explain how > it all works?
Yes please. Can she be spunky as well? ta. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/