Linus was always bitchy... [LWN.net]

Linus was always bitchy...

Posted Sep 27, 2006 22:10 UTC (Wed) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)
In reply to: Linus was always bitchy... by ibukanov
Parent article: Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com)

> Would you like for GPLv3 to prevent such device from existence?

Correction, I wanted to say:

Would you like for GPLv3 to prevent such device from running GPLv3 code?

to post comments

Yes.

Posted Sep 27, 2006 23:40 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (guest, #307) [Link]

Unless your server could be blessed with the same ssl certificate so you
could put YOUR code in YOUR clock. That is the thing: If it's MY code,
and I buy MY hardware with MY code on it, I (and others) better have
freedom 1 ("freedom to study the code and adapt it to my needs")
protected all the way down the line.

Because if we don't, everyone will begin to make DRMd hardware and
literally run with all GPLd code. Because -- as every hardware will be
locked -- no one will ever have the freedom to "adapt it to its needs".