On Jun 16, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 23:44:00 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 16, 2007, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> Tivo has two choices: either it gives >> >> users the content they want to watch, or it goes out of business. Is >> >> that legitimate enough of a reason to restrict the hardware? >> > >> > Can I submit that they could just rent the use of their machines? >> >> I don't think this would escape the wording of section 6 in GPLv3dd4: >> >> [...] User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or >> for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is >> characterized), [...] >> >> and IMHO that's as it should be to defend the freedoms of the user.
> In the case of renting a machine you can try to legislate new laws all you > want. It doesn't make a difference. There are certain rights you don't get > when renting something that you do when you own it. You mean renting the computer with the software in it is not distribution of the software? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
