On Thursday 14 June 2007 18:45:07 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 14, 2007, "Chris Friesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> *AND* the GPL has never been about making the source available to > >>> everyone - just to those that get the binaries. > >> > >> Exactly. Not even to the upstream distributor. That's where Linus' > >> theory of tit-for-tat falls apart. > > > > Nope. > > > > case 1: Upstream provides source, tivo modifies and distributes it > > (to their customers). > > > > case 2: tivo provides source, end user modifies and distributes it > > (possibly to their customers, maybe to friends, possibly even to > > upstream). > > > > See? Tit for tat. > > case 2': tivo provides source, end user tries to improve it, realizes > the hardware won't let him and gives up
Faulty logic. The hardware doesn't *restrict* you from *MODIFYING* any fscking thing. DRH > > Where's the payback, or the payforward? > > And then, tit-for-tat is about equivalent retaliation, an eye for an > eye. Where's the retaliation here? > > If GPLv2 were tit-for-tat, if someone invents artifices to prevent the > user from making the changes the user wants on the software, wouldn't > it be "equivalent retaliation" to prevent the perpetrator from making > the changes it wants on the software? -- Dialup is like pissing through a pipette. Slow and excruciatingly painful. - 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/
