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• IntelMiner 7y ago
  One of the greatest faults of Linux was sticking to the GPLv2, GPLv3 actively sought to deny "tivoization" as they called it, as Tivo used Linux and provided the code, but required signed software to boot, rendering the access to the code effectively pointless
  • eitland 7y ago
    Considering you think Linux has several great faults I think it has done incredibly well. This might come across as a bit snarky but have you considered that vendors has other options besides Linux? The alternative to - having the source code but not being able to install a modified version on your device might very well be - not having the source code at all (since it is written with a proprietary os) Now at least we have the source code in case someone wants to create a similar system.