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Theft is a bit of a red herringTheft is a bit of a red herringPosted Feb 11, 2007 22:18 UTC (Sun) by b3timmons (guest, #40286)In reply to: DRM is a bit of a red herring. by drag Parent article: Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris
With such logic I could ask whether or not a car alarm system is worth it to inconvenience thieves.
I have read nothing about the GPLv3 making any conceivable form of Tivoization impossible, and, indeed, another poster recently posited an example involving a possible three-way vendor circumvention. What matters is not how we feel about DRM but being able to choose a license that best suits one's purpose, and if that purpose is to protect software freedom, then the GPLv3 will be the best choice, at least until something like a GPLv4. If Microsoft released an MSPL license that protected software freedom better than the GPLv3, then I would choose that.
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Theft is a bit of a red herring Posted Feb 12, 2007 3:12 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] Perhaps unfair, but the answer is no. Car alarms are not worth it to inconvenience thieves. They do not seem to have significant theft reduction benefits. That is, the kind which makes noise etc. The lojack kind which simply track your car so after it is stolen you can have lojack tell the police the current location of the car work well. But the "inconvenience" sort do not generally inconvenience thieves, they only inconvenience your neighbors.
They do, however, have significant insurance benefits.
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