> On Jun 19, 2007,
david@lang.hm wrote:
>
>> if you also make the assumption that the company won't use propriatary
>> software instead then I think you would get agreement.
>
> Ah, good point. When I posed the one of the two cases of the inicial
> scenario as "no tivoization", I meant Free Software without
> constraints.
>
>> but the disagrement is over this exact assumption. you assume that
>> these companies will use non-tivoized products if you make it hard
>> to use the software covered by the GPL, most other people are saying
>> that they disagree and the result would be fewer companies useing
>> software covered by GPL instead.
>
> I understand that. And what I'm saying is that, even if fewer such
> companies use GPLed software, you may still be better off, out of
> additional contributions you'll get from customers of companies that
> switch from tivoization to unconstrained Free Software, because of the
> additional costs of the alternatives.
>
> And no, I can't prove it, but it's good that at least the argument is
> no longer completely disregarded while something else is disputed.
>
>
> Now that you guys at least understand what the argument is, you can
> figure out the solution by yourselves.
