Rebel EFI Allegedly Contains OSS Code Covered Under APSL
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Oct 2009 14:09 UTC, submitted by Cytor
Hardware, Embedded Systems When Psystar announced it Rebel EFI package, the company was quickly accused of simply taking open source code, repackaging it, and selling it for USD 50. While selling open source code is not a problem, not making the source code available if the license demands it is. Netkas, famous OSX86 hacker, and a Russian site are now claiming they have found the smoking gun.
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StephenBeDoper
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2005-07-06

That proposition has never made sense. Why would Microsoft want to increase competition within the x86/x64 operating system market?


Perhaps Microsoft has been secretly taken over by the Robot Devil from Futurama.

"Ah-ha-ha, my ridiculously-circuitous plan is now one-quarter complete!"

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