On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:32:59PM -0800, larry price wrote:
> The way I read it, this narrowing of the definition of what is source
> code covers not only the situations you mention, but also makes it
> difficult to run software covered by this license on any Trusted
> Computing [1] platform for which the user of the software does not
> possess the key. This is most likely the intended result, although the
> net effect will be to deny legal access to Free Software for users of
> certain classes of device. [2] An outcome which is probably desired
> both by the FSF and the manufacturers of such devices...if not by the
> end users.
Wait, so all Microsoft has to do is coerce Dell into using TPM chips to
guarantee that Linux on the biggest name in PCs is illegal! Brilliant
victory for free software! Thank you Richard Stallman. I don't know how
we'd live without your inspirational all-or-nothing approach.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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