[Fsf-friends] Need help (sorry for cross posting)

[Krishna Pagadala]

Tivo is an example. But it can reasonably be construed as an example where the content companies are forcing Tivo to do so.

I want examples where nobody is forcing such behaviour, but they still take away freedom. Such examples I hope will convince more people that GPLv3 is right in prohibiting them. The thin client example is a very good one for these purposes, anybody know who makes them? Link to a website selling the product? Who are schools that actually bought the product? Can somebody (from Bangalore?) volunteer to find out this information.

Thanks
Krishna


Ajay Pal Singh Atwal <ajaypal at bbsbec.org> wrote: Maybe someone more knowledgeable can tell you more about it, but tivo is one example of such a device. Maybe you can read this as well
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1915643,00.asp

----- Krishna Pagadala  wrote:
> Hi All,
>    The following is an excerpt from the recent GPLv3 Conference in
> Bangalore.
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>    "The simplest case it, I buy a thin client, lets say, and it's got
> firmware on an IDE flash, I cannot take it out and put it in another
> commodity hardware because they lock it down.  And they don't do
> simple things like, the kernel only has drivers for your hardware. 
> They TPM it, they put in a two dollar TPM chip on the board and they
> lock down Free Software to their particular hardware."
> http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/bangalore-rms-transcript#freedom-and-thin-clients
> 
> Does anybody know more about this? Does anybody know the person who
> asked this question? Can people please find out and let me know?
> 
> Thanks
> Krishna
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Sincerely

Ajay Pal Singh Atwal
Dept of CSE & IT
BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib
Punjab, INDIA
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http://www.ajaypal.com
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