On Jun 19, 2007, "Dave Neuer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/19/07, Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]> wrote:
>> But it takes only a small fraction of the tivoizers to decide to take
>> out the locks, when faced with the costs mentioned above, for us to
>> gain contributions from even a small fraction of their user base
>> (which would then grow in hacker density as a result of
>> non-tivoization) for us to end up better off.
> Even if you're correct, that only takes into account the manufacturers
> who are using Linux _now_ who might be pressured to allowed modified
> versions to run. What about the lost opportunity cost of all of the
> future manufacturers who decide to use ProprietaryOS + locks instead
> of Linux? We don't get any of their code.
True. This is not left out of my complete argument, though.
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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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