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=Comment by Richard Stallman=

"As an example of the new circumstances, he mentioned the DRM law and
the example of a program called Tivo. Tivo is a device that records
television programmes for the user to watch at another convenient
time. This is a combination of software and hardware. The software is
based on the GNU/Linux operating system, which is Free Software. All
Free Software gives its users the freedom to modify the software to
suit their purpose, and thus this software also gives the freedom to
its users. But the hardware is designed to reject any software that is
not one of the versions that is designed to run on it. Thus, though
the user has the freedom to modify the software, it becomes
meaningless because then it cannot be used. In other words, though the
software is Free, the freedom becomes meaningless. The present GPL is
not violated, though the freedom is, in practice, useless. The new
version became necessary because of such circumstances."
(Richard Stallman, speaking at the Fourth International
Conference on GPL v3 held at the Indian Institute of Management,
Bangalore, on August 23rd, 2006)


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