Interview with Linus Torvalds (LinuxFR)

Posted May 4, 2011 17:06 UTC (Wed) by nevets (subscriber, #11875)
In reply to: Interview with Linus Torvalds (LinuxFR) by mikebenden
Parent article: Interview with Linus Torvalds (LinuxFR)

I don't like the fact that I can't modify my hardware to make it do more than what it was made to do either. And reading the article, I think Linus does not like that either as well, as he disagrees with the DRM.

But, the point that I got from Linus was that it's not the software license's job to make that change. The software license is just that. A license on the software, not the hardware. I think it is sad that we want to restrict what hardware software can run on.

The fight against closed hardware should be done with open hardware, like the flight against closed software was done with open software. Unfortunately, hardware is much harder to make in your basement than software is.

Interview with Linus Torvalds (LinuxFR)

Posted May 4, 2011 20:09 UTC (Wed) by teknohog (guest, #70891) [Link] (1 responses)

We still have the choice to buy hardware that is relatively open by itself, and plays well with open software. And for the tinkerers there are always things like FPGAs.

Interview with Linus Torvalds (LinuxFR)

Posted May 5, 2011 3:31 UTC (Thu) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606) [Link]

Choices are always there. Too bad that producing something physical as hardware requires lots more resources than software (almost nil, only glucose for the brain). I think that's the cause of the limitation for hardware, at least for now.