Motorola gnu/linux phones
Thomas Charron
twaffle at gmail.com
Sun Aug 12 00:13:55 CEST 2007
On 8/11/07, David A. Desrosiers <setuid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 16:34 +0200, mr wrote:
> > Exactly, the gplv3 is designed to help prevent "Tivoization" as rms
> > calls it.
> Exactly my point... the GPLv3 prevents the hardware vendors putting in
> hardware lock-in that prevents running Linux from being _possible_ on
> the hardware, but it certainly holds no provisions to make it _easy_ to
> put Linux on the same hardware.
In the end, it's a moot point. I don't believe Linux will *EVER* be
released under the gplv3.
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-- Thomas
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