On Jun 14, 2007, Florin Malita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> When they download the software, they get another copy, and they have >>>> a right to modify that copy.
>>> But you get the TiVO corporations copy of the software? >> Yes. The customer gets the copy that TiVO stored in the hard disk in >> the device it sells. And it's that copy that the customer is entitled >> to modify because TiVO is still able to modify it. > No, by this twisted logic Tivo *cannot* modify that particular copy > any more than you can. They can modify *another* copy (just like you) > and they can *replace* the copy in your device with the new version > (unlike you). Again, replacing is one form of modification. What do you think you do when you save a modified source file in your editor? -- 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/