On Jun 20, 2007, "Jesper Juhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19/06/07, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > In the GPLv3 world, we have already discussed in this thread how you can >> > follow the GPLv3 by making the TECHNICALLY INFERIOR choice of using a ROM >> > instead of using a flash device. >> >> Yes. This is one option that doesn't bring any benefits to anyone. >> It maintains the status quo for users and the community, but it loses >> the ability for the vendor to upgrade, fix or otherwise control the >> users. Bad for the vendor.
> Also bad for the user We already know the vendor doesn't care about the user, so why should we take this into account when analyzing the reasoning of the vendor? The rest of your paragraph was covered in what I wrote, BTW. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - 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/
