Re: An explanation of tivoisation

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
> "Tivoisation is a technique that manufacturers use to produce a 
> computer, to sell to you, whose software they can update but you 
> can't."
> 
> That's exactly how my BMW works!

The freedom to change the software on your BMW is not as important as the
freedom to change the software on your desktop computer.

But you have found a deficiency in my definition.  I should have added
"remotely" or "over a network":

 "Tivoisation is a technique that manufacturers use to produce a computer,
  to sell to you, whose software they can update remotely but you can't
  update at all."

...but I'll have to think about that for a bit more.


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