> > But you're not the user of the software on my laptop. I am. > ahh, but by your own argument you aren't
Let's not confuse owner with user and let's not confuse ownership of copyrights with ownership of particular copies. > the software on your laptop is owned by people like Linus, Al Viro, David > M, Alan Cox, etc. No. The copyright to the software is owned by those people. But particular copies of copyrighted items can be owned by other people. > they have the right to put a license on that software that would require > you to give them access to your hardware (after all, that's the argument > that you are useing to justify requireing Tivo to give you access > to their hardware) That's right, they do have that right so long as they condition it on the exercise of something I could not do without their permission. (Ignoring for the moment the fact that the software is a derivative work of GPL'd software.) I'm not sure whether you think this disagrees with or refutes anything I've said. DS - 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/