Tivoization

They make up new terminology, such as "Tivoization", to attack those businesses.

Freetards in deep denial 2007

"Tivoization" preserves freedom No. 1 in a formal sense, while making it ineffective in practice.

Freeing The Code SlavesFree Vs. Open 2006

Despite all the "Tivoization" complaints from the FSF, people aren't flocking away from Tivos.

GigaOM Network 2010

Vista 7 Hit by Black Screens of Death, Bill Gates Subpoenaed over Red Rings of Death Does "Tivoization" Also Mean Massively Suing All Competitors Using Software Patents?

Boycott Novell 2009

Critics of the move, including free software advocate Richard Stallman, now refer to any attempts by Linux-based hardware manufacturers to limit the use of modified Linux on their products as "Tivoization."

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs Paul McDougall 2010

Tivoization is defined in wikipedia as a concept in which a system uses software offered under a "copyleft" license, which removes restrictions, but then uses hardware to prevent users from running modified versions.

danblacharski's blog 2009

Access to the source code is a precondition for this. the FSF is saying with Tivoization, you are blocking freedom 4 in a roundabout way.

OSNews 2009

The author didn't say that dual licensing and Tivoization are the same, or that dual licensing has no value.

OSNews 2009

It’s two main thrusts are protection from Tivoization and Treacherous (or Trusted) computing.

GPLv3 launched : #comments 2007

Tivoization the creation of a system that uses GPL software but uses hardware to prevent the user from running software other than the specific version that distributor wants, a tactic which obviously impinges on the user’s freedom and goes against the spirit of GPLv2.

GPLv3 launched : #comments 2007

“Tivoization” is a term coined by Richard Stallman to signify a practice whereby a system that includes open source software uses hardware to prevent the modification of that open source software.

GPL Version 3 Has Arrived! Now What? 2007