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To 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 tha
by pornel 6y ago
To 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.