Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Nov 2007 21:12 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Coward
Asus has responded to the GPL violation allegations. "The source code found here is complete to the best of Asus's knowledge. If you believe any additional source code files should be provided under the applicable open source license, please contact Asus at support@asus.com and provide in detail the product or code module in question. Asus is committed to meeting the requirements of the open source licenses including the GNU General Public License." Additionally, ASUS announced the upcoming SDK for the eeePC. "Asus is also pleased to announce the upcoming release of the Eee PC SDK. This will allow for the development on the Eee PC by the OpenSource community making it easy to develop, easy to port and easy to release software for the Eee PC platform."
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2005-07-06
Your comment is completely stupid. both ways and not funny. I will explain why :
If "You bastards!" actually worked , then "NOW" would be the time to use it on other vendors who's hardware spec , driver code and software are not available. As it as gained momentum and a victory. So your illogical here.
Your also trying to suggest and imply that from now on insulting a Global international hardware vendor will lead to result favorable to what we want , insulting and ridiculing the hard work of the people who actually created the legal framework , distribution systems and Lobby and financed the project until it's creation.
To be frank , the " we don't want it , if it don't meet our Open Source demand ( even do they are asking for Free Software demand ) , from distributor and important vendor and the impending legal and enforceable threat costing them Billions in Bad publicity and legal fee for the future had more impact.
It's not funny because some people here will think and spread numerously the false thinking that : "hey if we insult them we will get the same result, for our failing OS!" as the GPL and GNU/Linux OS in there feeble mind is inferior and cannot be part of the winning factor.
Let this be a lesson for the other OS who are not offered as default , option and choice on the Eee PC platform.
- Being legal.
- Enforcing your legal license.
- Working directly with the Hardware maker and vendor at the prototype level to create a default install.
- Creating demand.
- Lobbying for your platform.
- Financing Prototype and offers.
- Making publicity about the offer.
That's what work.