Maybe someone more knowledgeable can tell you more about it, but tivo is one example of
such a device. Maybe you can read this as well
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1915643,00.asp
----- Krishna Pagadala <krishnaact(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi All,
The following is an excerpt from the recent GPLv3 Conference in
Bangalore.
"The simplest case it, I buy a thin client, lets say, and it's got
firmware on an IDE flash, I cannot take it out and put it in another
commodity hardware because they lock it down. And they don't do
simple things like, the kernel only has drivers for your hardware.
They TPM it, they put in a two dollar TPM chip on the board and they
lock down Free Software to their particular hardware."
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/bangalore-rms-transcript#freedom-and-th…
Does anybody know more about this? Does anybody know the person who
asked this question? Can people please find out and let me know?
Thanks
Krishna
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