a better explanation is on wikipedia: Tivoization is the creation of a system that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license (like the GPL), but uses hardware restrictions to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware.
This is admittedly a wild guess but what about تويبيّة :-) is a phrase allowed or does it have to be a single word? On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Osama KM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I hope someone will > correct me if it isn't. > > I have seen the term "Tivoization" over and over while translating gnu.org and > fsf.org pages, but I don't think there has been any 'approved' Arabic term > yet. > > "Tivoization" is a technology that was born in 1999 with the "Tivo" device > that's built on top of some free components of the GNU/Linux operating system. > The Tivo had a nasty mechanism to stop working when a modified version is > installed (e.g. to break DRM). > > Can someone please suggest a term for that? > > Thanks! > > -- > Osama Khalid > "Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for > others?" Martin Luther King Jr. > TinyOgg: Watch YouTube without Flash: > <http://tinyogg.com> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
