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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2006-07-26
Mine's in the mail now. It bothers me a bit that they have possibly violated the GPL. I'm hoping (and expecting) that they will comply soon. Going to court doesn't help them OR the community, so I hope this is resolved in the best possible way.
On another note: With the Eee plus the recent success of the Walmart $200 PC could this be the mythical "Year of Linux on the Desktop"?
I've been running Linux mostly exclusively for almost 5 years, but...I'm always pulling for projects like the Eee to succeed.