Richard Stallman Talks About TiVo Concerns (Video)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2007-07-17 13:44:13 UTC
Modified: 2007-07-17 13:47:05 UTC
Not everyone seems to understand Tivoization, but regardless, Linus Torvalds likes it. In the following video, Richard Stallman talks about Tivoization and explains his pet peeves, which you may or may not sympathise with. The part of about TiVo starts about a minute after the start.
Comments
JuhaK
2007-07-17 15:20:53
Amost word to word on some old speech RMS gave in Taiwan, you can find it gnu.org.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html#TW
Adam Kosmin
2007-07-17 19:02:47
Please remove the silly flash content from the site as no free software exists that can render the content.
Thank you,
Adam Kosmin
http://windowsrefund.info
Roy Schestowitz
2007-07-17 22:55:01
Adam, there is actually a project close to gnash that can play YouTube videos. It is Free software. YouTube still uses Flash 7, so proprietary codec (with required royalties) are not a problem (but I agree with your point, which was raised before).
Since virtually everyone in Europe is a user of software (almost nobody is a forest dweller like in countries near the equator), this impacts everybody
Colleagues saw the suicide; the EPO's response wasn't to tackle the causes but to bolt down the windows (like factories in China installing controversial 'suicide nets')
"In the long term, the FSF needs to own its future office space, but then the deadly risk is that the property ownership becomes the end goal rather than software freedom."
Comments
JuhaK
2007-07-17 15:20:53
Adam Kosmin
2007-07-17 19:02:47
Thank you,
Adam Kosmin http://windowsrefund.info
Roy Schestowitz
2007-07-17 22:55:01