Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Nov 2007 21:12 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Coward
Hardware, Embedded Systems 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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haha
by Bounty on Tue 27th Nov 2007 21:49 UTC
Bounty
Member since:
2006-09-18

Everyone can put their "You bastards!" back in your pocket now.

RE: haha
by miscz on Tue 27th Nov 2007 21:52 in reply to "haha"
miscz Member since:
2005-07-17

Did anybody expect anything else? It's not like Asus is some small company that can ignore licenses and be mostly ignored. I doubt this was more than a simple mistake on Asus side.

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RE[2]: haha
by Oliver on Wed 28th Nov 2007 11:01 in reply to "RE: haha"
Oliver Member since:
2006-07-15

It wasn't even that, it was just a matter of time. But some people are rather fast at burning someone then actually thinking.

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RE: haha
by superman on Tue 27th Nov 2007 22:07 in reply to "haha"
superman Member since:
2006-08-01

haha. Oops.
Great news.

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RE: haha
by lemur2 on Tue 27th Nov 2007 23:13 in reply to "haha"
lemur2 Member since:
2007-02-17

Everyone can put their "You bastards!" back in your pocket now.


... right along with their "it would have been easier to just use XP"s.

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v RE: haha
by Moulinneuf on Wed 28th Nov 2007 16:09 in reply to "haha"
RE: haha
by Ringheims Auto on Thu 29th Nov 2007 09:19 in reply to "haha"
Ringheims Auto Member since:
2005-07-23

Yep. And that's good.

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