[Nottingham] "tivoization", iPhone, and GPLv3 lockout?

[Michael Erskine]

2008/9/4 Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>:
> The open source community is at present completely reliant on
> *proprietary hardware* ...

> All it takes is for some proprietary firmware dongling to be imposed on
> the hardware and we then have nothing to run our beautiful software on...

Don't buy it: use the billions of devices already out there that run
the free software just fine.

Michael.