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Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabiliti
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Arne Babenhauserheide |
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Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff |
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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:25:50 +0100 |
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Am Dienstag 30 Dezember 2008 11:51:05 schrieb Michal Suchanek:
> And how is the computer ever going to not allow sending the photo?
For example because the camera is a test version where you have to pay to
unlock the photo-sharing feature.
You can't think of further examples?
If so, you definitely aren't evil enough for this world ;)
> If you are running a free system you can do whatever you wish.
Which isn't the case if someone gave me a locked down device running on free
software. And a "design feature" of Coyotos is that you can very easily do
that lock down.
> However, you have to buy a camera that does not refuse to work with a
> free system which you cannot enforce by any technical features or
> legal licensing terms of the system your computer runs. You have to be
> educated about the possibility of DRM and avoid it in devices and
> services you use.
I fully agree, except for the legal licensing part. Naturally you can use a
device which forbids you by legal means to share photos on a free system. You
just aren't allowed to distribute such a device with a free system.
But I'd like to add:
You should avoid contributing to projects which make it easier to create
applications which refuse to work with a device built on free software (locked
down free software is quite similar to unfree software with opened source
code, so I don't consider a locked down device as "built on free software").
The freedom of software has a value in itself, and devices which require an
unfree system deny people their freedom.
Besides: I just realized that you might have meant your sentence as describing
problem of free software. I see it as an advantage that treacherous
applications can't function with free software, so for me your paragraph is a
a simple statement: Yes, you have to be educated about DRM, regardless of the
question if you use free software or not.
Best wishes,
Arne
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- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, (continued)
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Michal Suchanek, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Michal Suchanek, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Michal Suchanek, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Michal Suchanek, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/12/29
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Michal Suchanek, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff,
Arne Babenhauserheide <=
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Michal Suchanek, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Michal Suchanek, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Michal Suchanek, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, olafBuddenhagen, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, olafBuddenhagen, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Michal Suchanek, 2008/12/30
- Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/12/30