Am Dienstag 30 Dezember 2008 11:51:05 schrieb Michal Suchanek: > And how is the computer ever going to not allow sending the photo?
For example because the camera is a test version where you have to pay to unlock the photo-sharing feature. You can't think of further examples? If so, you definitely aren't evil enough for this world ;) > If you are running a free system you can do whatever you wish. Which isn't the case if someone gave me a locked down device running on free software. And a "design feature" of Coyotos is that you can very easily do that lock down. > However, you have to buy a camera that does not refuse to work with a > free system which you cannot enforce by any technical features or > legal licensing terms of the system your computer runs. You have to be > educated about the possibility of DRM and avoid it in devices and > services you use. I fully agree, except for the legal licensing part. Naturally you can use a device which forbids you by legal means to share photos on a free system. You just aren't allowed to distribute such a device with a free system. But I'd like to add: You should avoid contributing to projects which make it easier to create applications which refuse to work with a device built on free software (locked down free software is quite similar to unfree software with opened source code, so I don't consider a locked down device as "built on free software"). The freedom of software has a value in itself, and devices which require an unfree system deny people their freedom. Besides: I just realized that you might have meant your sentence as describing problem of free software. I see it as an advantage that treacherous applications can't function with free software, so for me your paragraph is a a simple statement: Yes, you have to be educated about DRM, regardless of the question if you use free software or not. Best wishes, Arne -- -- My stuff: http://draketo.de - stories, songs, poems, programs and stuff :) -- Infinite Hands: http://infinite-hands.draketo.de - singing a part of the history of free software. -- Ein Würfel System: http://1w6.org - einfach saubere (Rollenspiel-) Regeln. -- PGP/GnuPG: http://draketo.de/inhalt/ich/pubkey.txt
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