"The current lockdown of Linux based devices (including Android
phones, TiVo, and many many consumer devices) is due, simply, to
the Linux developers' unwillingness to update their code to the
GPLv3 license. We* contribute to Linux, Linux is taken for use in
Android (and remains Open and Free), and then the phone
manufacturers take our work and lock it up and sell it to us with
reduced functionality. Big thanks, manufacturers.
"The GPLv2 license, released a very long time ago (in Technology
terms), didn't foresee device manufacturers using the Free, Open
code in their devices, but locking down those hardware devices to
prevent that hardware from running anything but the manufacturer's
signed code."
