<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td style='font: inherit;'>Thanks.<br>Exactly what I was looking for.<br>What I mean is Wifi Access Point built and manufactured in China by AirWave<br>and add-on hardware key and new firmware doesn't come from China<br>but from third party, installing hardware and software in originally delivered and manufacturer sealed box.<br>So hardware comes from factory key free, unlocked,<br>hardware lock is installed by developer of GNU Open Source Software<br>to generate profit on sale of modified product (upgraded firmware).<br><br>Going the same rule, Nokia can incorporate hardware key into Nokia Internet Tablet<br>one day as well as any other manufacturer of hardware running Linux.<br><br>Darius<br><br><br><br>comes<br><br>from<br>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001060.html<br>"<br><p>
This concept of software freedom is embedded deeply into the GPL. As
promised, we indeed have the freedom to see the Tivo source code, copy
it, and change it. <b>Since the Tivo's hardware validates the software, access to the Tivo software becomes effectively meaningless.</b> You can modify the software all you want, but you'll never be able to run it on your own Tivo!
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You might, in fact, argue that <b>Tivo subverted the very principles of the GPL they built their business on</b>. Richard Stallman certainly did. He <a href="http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/drm-and-gplv3">felt so strongly about this perceived subversion of the GPL</a> that he literally went back and <i>rebuilt the GPL license</i> to prevent what Tivo did: <br></p><p>..'</p><p>"<br></p><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 3/5/08, Clarence "Sparr" Risher <i><sparr0@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Clarence "Sparr" Risher <sparr0@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: Opensource locked by hardware key was Re: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]<br>To: dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie<br>Date: Saturday, 3 May, 2008, 7:38 PM<br><br><pre>On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Darius Jack <dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie><br>wrote:<br>> I would like to know your
opinion<br>> if opensource software (GNU Open Source licence (not included)<br>> intended for Linux OS,<br>> can be hardware key locked<br>> to disable its functions.<br><br>Google "tivoization". This is legal under GPL v2, while other<br>licenses (notably GPL v3) seek to prohibit it.</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com