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. -- 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/
