Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, David Greaves wrote:
Surely it's more:
bad == go away and don't use future improvements to our software anymore
please.
??
Well, with the understanding that I don't think that what Tivo did was bad
in the first place, let me tackle that question *anyway*.
The answer is: Not necessarily.
I do agree with what you say here. Maybe a summary:
Babies, bathwater...
When you have a hammer (license) everything looks like a nail...
See? You don't actually have to like Tivo to see downsides to trying to
stop them. Because these kinds of things have consequences *outside* of
just stopping Tivo.
My concern is around embedded type systems and maybe even the 'trusted'
frameworks etc.
I _think_ I can see a completely opensource system that the end user cannot
modify _in any way_. Which kinda defeats the point (to me) of opensource.
This 5 minute design undoubtedly has flaws but it shows a direction:
A basically standard 'De11' PC with some flash.
A Tivoised boot system so only signed kernels boot.
A modified kernel that only runs (FOSS) executables whose signed hash lives in
the flash.
Do we (you) _want_ to prevent this?
Do we trust in 'the market' to prevent this?
Do we use license tools?
David
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