On 06/19/2012 03:45 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > I would claim that the moral right to run whatever software we wish on > hardware we own is a negative right; it doesn't put any obligation on > another party to help you do it. If you can hack up Fedora to run on a > Nokia Windows phone, more power to you, but Nokia and Microsoft aren't > obligated to help you do it, and aren't legally prohibited from doing > things that make it difficult for you to exercise your moral right. I think I'd disagree with you there. I don't think it's any different from someone using extensive technical measures to prevent anyone other than the authorized dealers of a particular car from servicing it. Such a move would be treated as anti-competitive in many countries, and IMO software should be treated in the same way. > Possibly in this example someone might consider Nokia and Microsoft to > be infringing their moral right, but (in the US at least) they'd have no > recourse. Indeed. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
