Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) [LWN.net]

Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)

Posted Jan 16, 2007 15:47 UTC (Tue) by zotz (guest, #26117)
In reply to: Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) by sean.hunter
Parent article: Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)

"If I wrote a GPL Electronic Health Record I would not necessarily think that it would automatically be bad for someone to make a device that contained my code but prevented people from modifying the data. In fact I would not want to prevent that use of my code at all."

You probably should. If the device maker prevented the people who were supposed to be able to properly change the data from being able to do so. I think that is what is under discussion.

Of course it is fine to prevent people who are not supposed to change the data from changing it and to prevent data that is not supposed to be changed from being changed. The problem is with preventing people who are supposed to be able to change data that is supposed to be able to be changed from changing that data.

I would appreciate your further input.

all the best,

drew

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