On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 15:05 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
to see if that could eventually work as a "real" free sw
So, what's their current technique? Do they withhold some of the source code? Use EUCD/DMCA threats?
The ones I've seen are license distribution systems based on public key crypto. So, you can revoke people's [device's] keys and effectively bar them on a forward basis from the system.
Most of these systems are very much not aimed at desktop general purpose computers.
Cheers,
Alex.