Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:42:06 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
>> Dispute this: >> >> non-tivoized hardware => users can scratch their itches => more >> contributions from these users >> >> tivoized hardware => users can't scratch their itches => fewer >> contributions from these users > > Linus doesn't have to. Statistically the number of people that will even think > of modifying the code running on a "tivoized" device is minute - at most 5% > of the users of such a device. Of those people the ones with the skill to > actually do the work is an even smaller number - figure 2.5 to 3% of them. Of > those with the skill, probably about 10% of them are actually *good* enough > at it for their changes to be useful. Of that number, figure that only 25%, > at most, will contribute the changes back. > > Apply that to a sample case: > "tivoized" device total users: 1,000,000 > people that think about modifying: 50,000 (5%) > people with skill: 1500 (3%) > people who are good enough for the changes to be useful: 150 (10%) > those who will contribute them back: 38 (25%)
based on my experiance looking at the software released for tivos, I think you are over-estimating these numbers. if there are more then a dozen people producing things that are good enough to be useful and releasing their results as opensource software I would be surprised.
and for all that the FSF is claiming that tivos can't being modified it's really not that hard to change.
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