You know, so many in the tech community always called Stallman a lunatic and crazy for his outlandish views. Yet, he's been spot on nearly every time a company does stunts like this.
Tivo spent how much money and time to prevent us from owning our computer-hence the GPL3. We see Linksys stole code until they finally released a pack months later, package signed too. And this company spent gobs in crypto chips and obfuscation and time to secure what took 24 hrs to properly fix (and yes, I do mean fix).
Even nasty tripwire and DRM laden PS3 has been rooted, as have 'unbeatable' blu-ray. C'mon people: when are companies going to realize that this kind of behavior eventually hurts them? For you engineer types: why do you do (and redo) this?
Tivo spent how much money and time to prevent us from owning our computer-hence the GPL3. We see Linksys stole code until they finally released a pack months later, package signed too. And this company spent gobs in crypto chips and obfuscation and time to secure what took 24 hrs to properly fix (and yes, I do mean fix).
Even nasty tripwire and DRM laden PS3 has been rooted, as have 'unbeatable' blu-ray. C'mon people: when are companies going to realize that this kind of behavior eventually hurts them? For you engineer types: why do you do (and redo) this?