Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754060AbXFNQuy (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:50:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751765AbXFNQuj (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:50:39 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:46808 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753787AbXFNQuh (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:50:37 -0400 To: Bron Gondwana Cc: Alan Cox , Chris Adams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <20070614013214.GA1124293@hiwaay.net> <20070614025248.6e0f72f0@the-village.bc.nu> <20070614041041.GA6788@brong.net> <20070614070006.GA7393@brong.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:50:14 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070614070006.GA7393@brong.net> (Bron Gondwana's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 17\:00\:06 +1000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1208 Lines: 28 On Jun 14, 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:58:26AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Do we actually get any benefit whatsoever from TiVO's choice of Linux >> as the kernel for its device? > Sure, if they make any changes or fixes to Linux. Other than that, > only the same benefit that Microsoft get from Windows piracy - TiVo > employees become familiar with Linux and are more likely to use it > and maybe contribute more in another job later. Now, what if TiVO actually permitted all of its customers to make changes or fixes to Linux, and become familiar with it and become more likely to use it and maybe contribute more later? Would we lose more or gain more? -- 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} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/