| ▲ | gzread 9 hours ago | |
Linus now has come to support Tivoization. I presume this has something to do with where his salary comes from. | ||
| ▲ | jmalicki 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Linus was a little liberal about the restrictions of software freedom (boy is that an awkward phrase) even early on - e.g. his general acceptance of "binary blobs" in the kernel and such for things like NVidia kernel drivers, to the chagrin of much harder-core free software people. | ||
| ▲ | kube-system 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Anti-Tivoization is a pretty radical idea that restricts the rights of hardware developers for the benefit of software developers. Linus doesn't really care about strong-arming hardware developers the way RMS does. He just cares about the software. | ||
| ▲ | samtheprogram 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Linus never cared about that use case of the GPL. He cared about the source code sharing. | ||