On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

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> On Jun 18, 2007, "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Sure, and you use the hardware to stop me from modifying the
>>>> Linux on your
>>>> laptop.
>
>>> Do I?  How so?
>
>> Any number of ways. For example, you probably don't connect the serial ports
>> to a device I have access to.
>
> But you're not the user of the software on my laptop.  I am.

ahh, but by your own argument you aren't

the software on your laptop is owned by people like Linus, Al Viro, David 
M, Alan Cox, etc.

they have the right to put a license on that software that would require 
you to give them access to your hardware (after all, that's the argument 
that you are useing to justify requireing Tivo to give you access to their 
hardware)

David Lang
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