On 30/12/2008, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> wrote: > Am Dienstag 30 Dezember 2008 13:21:21 schrieb Michal Suchanek: > > > On 30/12/2008, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> wrote: > > > Am Dienstag 30 Dezember 2008 11:51:05 schrieb Michal Suchanek: > > > > And how is the computer ever going to not allow sending the photo? > > > > > > For example because the camera is a test version where you have to pay to > > > unlock the photo-sharing feature. > > > > > > You can't think of further examples? > > > If so, you definitely aren't evil enough for this world ;) > > > > > > > If you are running a free system you can do whatever you wish. > > > > > > Which isn't the case if someone gave me a locked down device running on > > > free software. And a "design feature" of Coyotos is that you can very > > > easily do that lock down. > > > > > > > However, you have to buy a camera that does not refuse to work with a > > > > free system which you cannot enforce by any technical features or > > > > legal licensing terms of the system your computer runs. You have to be > > > > educated about the possibility of DRM and avoid it in devices and > > > > services you use. > > > > > > I fully agree, except for the legal licensing part. Naturally you can use > > > a device which forbids you by legal means to share photos on a free > > > system. You just aren't allowed to distribute such a device with a free > > > system. > > > > > > But I'd like to add: > > > You should avoid contributing to projects which make it easier to create > > > applications which refuse to work with a device built on free software > > > (locked down free software is quite similar to unfree software with > > > opened source code, so I don't consider a locked down device as "built on > > > free software"). > > > > > > The freedom of software has a value in itself, and devices which require > > > an unfree system deny people their freedom. > > > > If you meant that the camera itself cannot run free software if it > > disallows sharing your pictures that might be true for GPL3 software, > > not free software in general. > > > That is not what I meant. > > I meant that the software with which I interact with the camera uses DRM to > keep me from copying the pictures from my system to some other system, so the > unfree camera makes my own system betray me. >
Yes, it might. It might generally create encrypted blobs usable only in non-free environment. The choices taken during the design of the system running on your computer have nothing to do with it. Thanks Michal
