www/philosophy tivoization.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 23/06/22 09:02:47

Modified files:
        philosophy     : tivoization.html 

Log message:
        Introduce the "feature" claim at the beginnning of the paragraph that
        develops it. Remove the sentence about "anti-feature", which breaks
        the logics.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/tivoization.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.7&r2=1.8

Patches:
Index: tivoization.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/tivoization.html,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -b -r1.7 -r1.8
--- tivoization.html    22 Jun 2023 10:23:23 -0000      1.7
+++ tivoization.html    22 Jun 2023 13:02:45 -0000      1.8
@@ -39,13 +39,11 @@
     <a href="/philosophy/free-open-overlap.html">open source</a>,
     because the term &ldquo;open source&rdquo;
     <a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">is defined
-    in terms of how the source is treated</a>. The publisher or
-    the manufacturer may also advertise this forced signature check as a
-    &ldquo;feature.&rdquo; However, if it is not possible for the owner
-    to replace the manufacturer's signature with one's own, we call that
-    an &ldquo;anti-feature.&rdquo;</p>
+    in terms of how the source is treated</a>.</p>
 
-  <p>Their argument is: your computer won't boot (or will lack important
+  <p>The publisher or the manufacturer may advertize this forced
+    signature check as a &ldquo;feature.&rdquo; Here is
+    their argument: your computer won't boot (or will lack important
     features) if the hardware detects corrupted firmware, so tivoization
     protects you and your data. But we should wonder: whom does it
     protect, and from whom? Who is the owner of this lock? Who decides
@@ -146,7 +144,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2023/06/22 10:23:23 $
+$Date: 2023/06/22 13:02:45 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>