To: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:58:26 -0300
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On Jun 14, 2007, Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Tivo gets sick of the endless flamewars on lkml, signs a copy
> of QNX, pushes it out to the hardware.  No more Linux on Tivo.

What do we lose?

Do we actually get any benefit whatsoever from TiVO's choice of Linux
as the kernel for its device?

Do TiVO customers lose anything from the change from one non-Free
software to another?  (the Linux binary, as shipped in the TiVO, has
become non-Free)

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Alexandre Oliva         http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member         http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer   aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist  oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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