>> They "just work" as long as you don't try to
actually exercise one of the
>> freedoms we stand for.
>
> Which one?
"The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your
computing as you wish (freedom 1)."
"The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others
(freedom 3)."
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
No.
If anything, this is close to Tivoization, but that too not entirely:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
Happy hacking,
Debarshi
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