Star Asus eeePC Violates GPL Say Linux Stalwarts
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Nov 2007 23:05 UTC, submitted by jello
GNU, GPL, Open Source Members of the Linux community have complained that the hot new sub-notebook from Asus, the eeePC, may have violated the spirit of the Linux General Public License. Some Linux advocates claim the eeePC has not included required source code with the installed Xandros Linux distribution and does not easily enable users to install another distro. However, there are indications that eeePC fans probably don't care.
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RE[4]: Comment by jcpinto
by kaiwai on Mon 26th Nov 2007 02:08 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Comment by jcpinto"
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I'm not sure why you're being so defensive towards my post, as it seems you and I are otherwise on the same wavelength here. As I said, I'm not drawing any conclusions until the whole matter is brought out into the open, and for what it's worth I am actually rooting for ASUS on this. From what I've seen so far, they are simply not going above and beyond the call of the GPL and while that's uncommon in the FOSS world, it's not against the terms explicitly unless they flat out refuse or intentionally misdirect a request.


Why do people *instantly* assume that a reply to their post is exclusively directed at them?

My post was a 'reply in general' - a 'build upon' what you said in your post.

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