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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RE: haha
by miscz on Tue 27th Nov 2007 21:52 UTC in reply to "haha"
miscz
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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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v RE[3]: haha
by Moulinneuf on Wed 28th Nov 2007 16:40 in reply to "RE[2]: haha"