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subjugated. So this is a practice that undermines the freedom of the
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whole community. Therefore, having seen this, at the beginning of the
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GNU project, I conceived a way of preventing this problem from
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occuring.
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occurring.
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There are several primary areas where version 3 is
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different from version 2. One is in regard to tivoisation. Now,
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you've probably never heard the term "tivoisation", because I made it
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up, but it's an extrememly important threat to our freedom. It's
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up, but it's an extremely important threat to our freedom. It's
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named after a product called the "TiVo", which is capable of recording
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many television channels at once and then the user can watch any of
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the shows later on.
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Tivoisation turns freedom number 1 into a sham. Freedom 1 is the
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freedom to study the source code and change it so that the program
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does what you want. With tivoisation, this freedom becomes purely
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theorectical. Yes, you can change the program so that it could be
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theoretical. Yes, you can change the program so that it could be
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run in some other machine, and that might be useful for someone, but
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you can't change it and run it on the TiVo, and this is a deliberate
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restriction that they impose on the public.
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There's one other thing I should say. It's a very general thing.
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Governments that impose harsh restrictions on their citizens, backed
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up by cruel punishments, on behalf of corporations, are showing that
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they are not really on the citizens's side. They're not working for
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they are not really on the citizens' side. They're not working for
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us, they don't represent us except with lip service. They represent
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the corporations and their goal is to rule us. These governments are
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democratic only in name. And since governments get their legitimacy
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Q3: Will the new version of the LGPL become public at the same time as
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the second dicussion draft of the GPL?
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the second discussion draft of the GPL?
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