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> It's a good place to start putting pressure on the OEM's. If they can > choose between heavy DRM'ed and closed hardware, and pay millions in > license fees, or get the software they need for free in return for > dropping the restrictions, some are bound to choose the free route. This > is where the fight begins. > It'd be nice to think that licensing fees wouldn't make a difference as people would understand that locking themselves into something they're not allowed to exert any control over is not a good idea... & so oem's would have to chose due to revenue loss rather than simply 'licensing savings'. Unfortunately I doubt we're anywhere near close enough yet, so I'll get my head out of cloud nine... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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