Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

From: david
Date: Tue Jun 19 2007 - 18:52:18 EST


On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

On Jun 19, 2007, david@xxxxxxx wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

Once again, now with clearer starting conditions (not intended to
match TiVo in any way, BTW; don't get into that distraction)


Vendor doesn't care about tivoizing, their business works the same
either way.

Vendor's employees will contribute the same, one way or another, so
their contributions are out of the equation.

no, this is what you are missing.

No, this is just one of many possible situations.

You're just thinking of a different scenario, in which tivoization is
important for the tivoizer. We'll get to that.

Please be patient. Don't get the illusion that you're disputing or
weakening the argument with these statements. Disputing premises of a
logical inference is pointless as far as disputing a larger argument
that this particular lemma would be a part of.

if a company doesn't care about tivoizing then they won't do it, it takes time and money to tivoize some product and it will cause headaches for the company.

their reasons for wanting to tivoize a product may be faulty, but they think that the reasons are valid or they wouldn't go to the effort.

David Lang
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