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Tivoization and Free Software are orthogonal issues. Having full system sources means nothing when the TV most likely locks out any third party OSes.
by selfhoster11 6y ago
Tivoization and Free Software are orthogonal issues. Having full system sources means nothing when the TV most likely locks out any third party OSes.
- yellowapple 6y ago> Tivoization and Free Software are orthogonal issues. Not really. Tivoization actively hinders software freedom, namely because... > Having full system sources means nothing when the TV most likely locks out any third party OSes. ...of this exact reason.
- selfhoster11 6y agoBuying from a narrow list of supported hardware to use open source software has been a common thing for ages.
- pornel 6y agoTo me software freedom is a bigger issue than minutiae of GPL v2 vs v3. The overall problem is still that you don't have the ability to control the software that your TV runs, regardless of how this realized technically and legally.
- selfhoster11 6y agoYou could run a (hypothetical) proprietary third party full-stack TV implementation on non-Tivoized hardware just as well as a corresponding open-source implementation, because the TV just wouldn't care what's running on it. That's why I said they are orthogonal.