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).
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it
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