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The term implies no moral judgment, it simply is used to describe the technical process/effect. The term can be used by detractors in a negative fashion, and t
by burgerbrain 16y ago
The term implies no moral judgment, it simply is used to describe the technical process/effect.
The term can be used by detractors in a negative fashion, and the term can be used in a positive way by people who might be interested in doing it themselves. It's a word, it has not political opinions.
It is telling that you assume it has inherent negative connotations though.
- bad_user 16y agoRichard Stallman coined the term and I quote from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html One major danger that GPLv3 will block is tivoization ... The manufacturers of these computers take advantage of the freedom that free software provides, but they don't let you do likewise. If this doesn't have a negative connotation, that I don't know what does.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoTivoization means "to do what Tivo did". Some people disagree with what Tivo did, that doesn't make the word itself "offensive", nor does it imply wrongdoing, nor is it really a connotation, more a denotation. If they'd went with "digital slavery" or "software piracy" then I could see where you were coming from.