It seems that the main premise of the GPL is freedom. Being that the main premise is freedom, i believe the GPL should have as few restrictive non-freedom like provisions as possible. is this RESTRICTIVE NON-FREEDOM like provision one thats TRULY necessary in order to perpetuate the mission of the GPL? I'm not so sure it is because even if the hardware vendor's EULA prevents users from running different versions of certain software it doesn't mean people won't do it. I'm leaning toward this clause being axed ... just my two grosch