Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Nov 2007 23:05 UTC, submitted by jello
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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2006-05-12
Fist, I have not yet read the linked article, but the statement "has not included required source code with the installed Xandros Linux distribution" indicates a misunderstanding of the GPL terms.
They are not required to distribute the source code with the binaries at all, they are only required to make it available upon request and even then they can charge a nominal fee (ie. $10 to mail source CD's).
It just seems like we have been a little quick with the pitch forks in the past.