On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:58:26PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> >What is actually realistic is that DRM will creep into devices like
> >the Tivo. And what will the GPLv3 achieve? it will mean players
> >like Tivo will abandon GPL software and we'll be denied potential
> >improvements they would have made.
>> You assume there's no value in the GPLv3 software. That the DRM using
> embedded-app maker can easily choose something else without losing
> value (or having to spend resources in adding lost value to
> alternative $NON-GPL software, if it even exists).
No, I only assume that there is less value in the software than the
value in whatever it is that makes them want to use DRM.
> The other possibility is that the embedded-app maker decides that
> going with the GPLv3 software has more value than going with DRM.
Well so far, based on the real-world usages, that doesn't seem very
likely.
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