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Tivo and GPL: Beauty and the Beast?

Publication:ZDNetDate:Oct 04 2006
Reporter:Ed Burnette

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In the ongoing battle between Linux kernel developers and the Free Software Foundation over the future of the GNU Public License, somehow DVR-maker Tivo has become either the whipping boy, or the poster child, depending on whose side you are on. FSF founder Richard Stallman even coined a term for what he sees as misuse of the GPL: "tivoization".
 

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Funny world!bim_bim 4 Oct, 09:10

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