On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jun 19, 2007, [email protected] wrote:
if you also make the assumption that the company won't use propriatary
software instead then I think you would get agreement.
Ah, good point. When I posed the one of the two cases of the inicial
scenario as "no tivoization", I meant Free Software without
constraints.
but the disagrement is over this exact assumption. you assume that
these companies will use non-tivoized products if you make it hard
to use the software covered by the GPL, most other people are saying
that they disagree and the result would be fewer companies useing
software covered by GPL instead.
I understand that. And what I'm saying is that, even if fewer such
companies use GPLed software, you may still be better off, out of
additional contributions you'll get from customers of companies that
switch from tivoization to unconstrained Free Software, because of the
additional costs of the alternatives.
And no, I can't prove it, but it's good that at least the argument is
no longer completely disregarded while something else is disputed.
Now that you guys at least understand what the argument is, you can
figure out the solution by yourselves.
good, if you are no longer going to claim that your opinion on this
unprovable point is the Truth (not the capitol) hopefully you can accept
that a lot of very smart people are convinced that you are wrong on this
point and not just 'confused'
David Lang
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