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/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.html-diff: #score: 5143; @digest: 3f46b0935725797918dfc3e1055a3ed4; @id: 113702; @lang: en; @mdate: 2019-02-08T09:30:04Z; @size: 12407; @type: text/html; content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8; #keywords: samygo (11483), soylentnews (11368), tyrants (11161), 1912255 (10831), openlgtv (10401), azimuthsecurity (9447), securitynewspaper (8958), 9to5mac (8479), tyrant (7019), dummies (7016), firmwares (4948), achievements (3376), unlocking (3218), tablets (2933), motorola (2172), samsung (1993), workshop (1742), backdoor (1570), accidentally (1419), href (1328), proprietary (1312), restricted (1284), ”</ (1273), signing (1233), arbitrarily (1231), silently (1096), devices (1039), li (1023), android (1020), protecting (1012), installing (989), processors (667);    <title>Proprietary Tyrants - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>   <h2>Proprietary Tyrants</h2> <a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of proprietary malware</a> <div class="comment"> <p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is very often malware (designed to mistreat the user). Nonfree software is controlled by its developers, which puts them in a position of power over the users; <a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">that is the basic injustice</a>. The developers often exercise that power to the detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p> <p>A <em>tyrant</em> device is one that refuses to allow users to install a different operating system or a modified operating system. These devices have measures to block execution of anything other than the “approved” system versions. We also refer to this practice as <em>tivoization</em>. </p> <ul> <li> <p>Some LG TVs <div class="important"> <p>If you know of an example that ought to be in this page but isn't here, please write to <a href="http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Achievements">are tyrants</a>.</p> href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a> to inform us. Please include the URL of a trustworthy reference or two to serve as specific substantiation.</p> </div> </div> <div class="column-limit" id="proprietary-tyrants"></div> <ul class="blurbs"> <li id="M201607150"> <p>Microsoft accidentally left a way for users to install GNU/Linux on Windows RT tablets, but now it has <a href="http://www.securitynewspaper.com/2016/07/15/microsoft-silently-kills-dev-backdoor-boots-linux-locked-windows-rt-slabs/"> “fixed” the “error”</a>. They have the gall to call this “protecting” the users. The article talks of installing “Linux”, but the context shows it is really <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> that users install.</p> </li> <li><a href="http://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php5/SamyGO_for_DUMMIES#What_are_Restricted_Firmwares.3F"> Samsung <li id="M201412010"> <p>Apple arbitrarily <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/12/01/ios-8-1-signing-window-closed/">blocks users from installing old versions of iOS</a>.</p> </li> <li id="M201403150"> <p><a href="http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/03/15/1912255"> Intel processors will have tyrant software built in</a>.</p> </li> <li id="M201304080"> <p>Motorola, then owned by Google, made <a href="http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/04/unlocking-motorola-bootloader.html"> Android phones that are tyrants</a> (though someone found a way to crack the restriction). Fortunately, most Android devices are not tyrants.</p> </li> <li id="M201212180"> <p>Samsung “Smart” TVs have <a href="https://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php?title=SamyGO_for_DUMMIES#What_are_Restricted_Firmwares.3F"> turned Linux into the base for a tyrant system</a> so as to impose DRM. What enables Samsung to do this is that Linux is released under GNU GPL version 2, <a href="/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html">not version 3</a>, together with a weak interpretation of GPL version 2. 2.</p> </li> <li><p>Apple arbitrarily <li id="M201210020"> <p>Some LG TVs <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/12/01/ios-8-1-signing-window-closed/">blocks users from installing old versions of iOS</a>. </p> href="http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Achievements">are tyrants</a>.</p> </li> <li> <li id="M201205280"> <p>The Apple iThings are tyrant devices. There is a port of Android to the iThings, but installing it requires <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150721065208/http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Status"> finding a bug or “exploit”</a> to make it possible to install a different system. </p> system.</p> </li> <li> <li id="M201110110"> <p><a href="http://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/"> href="https://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/"> Mobile devices that come with Windows 8 are tyrants.</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><a href="http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/04/unlocking-motorola-bootloader.html"> Some Android phones are tyrants</a> (though someone found a way to crack the restriction). Fortunately, most Android devices are not tyrants. </p> tyrants</a>.</p> </li> <li> <li id="M201105070"> <p><a href="http://boycottsony.org">The href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/sony">The Playstation 3 is a tyrant</a>. </p> </li> <li> <p><a href="http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/03/15/1912255"> Intel processors will have tyrant software built in</a>. </p> </li> <li> <p>Microsoft accidentally left a way for users to install GNU/Linux on Windows RT tablets, but now it has <a href="http://www.securitynewspaper.com/2016/07/15/microsoft-silently-kills-dev-backdoor-boots-linux-locked-windows-rt-slabs/"> “fixed” the “error”</a>. They have the gall to call this “protecting” the users. The article talks of installing “Linux”, but the context shows it is really <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> that users install. </p> tyrant</a>.</p> </li> </ul> </div>  <div id="footer"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> <p> Please see the <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.</p> </div>  <p>Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 2017, 2018, 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.</p>  <p class="unprintable">Updated:  $Date: 2019/02/08 09:30:04 $  </p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> ...; http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/www/proprietary/po/proprietary-tyrants.it-diff.html - [detail] - [similar]

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