On Jun 14, 2007, Florin Malita <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>> When they download the software, they get another copy, and they have
>>>> a right to modify that copy.
>>> But you get the TiVO corporations copy of the software?
>> Yes. The customer gets the copy that TiVO stored in the hard disk in
>> the device it sells. And it's that copy that the customer is entitled
>> to modify because TiVO is still able to modify it.
> No, by this twisted logic Tivo *cannot* modify that particular copy
> any more than you can. They can modify *another* copy (just like you)
> and they can *replace* the copy in your device with the new version
> (unlike you).
Again, replacing is one form of modification.
What do you think you do when you save a modified source file in your
editor?
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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