Tivo is an example. But it can reasonably be construed as an example where the content companies are forcing Tivo to do so.

I want examples where nobody is forcing such behaviour, but they still take away freedom. Such examples I hope will convince more people that GPLv3 is right in prohibiting them. The thin client example is a very good one for these purposes, anybody know who makes them? Link to a website selling the product? Who are schools that actually bought the product? Can somebody (from Bangalore?) volunteer to find out this information.

Thanks Krishna

Ajay Pal Singh Atwal ajaypal@bbsbec.org wrote: 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 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-thi...

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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