ASUS eeePC: First impressions and GPL violations
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| What you won't find on that site are sources. ASUS is bound by the GPL to
| make the sources for the software they're distributing available, even if
| they have not modified them. (Check the license if you don't believe me.)
| ASUS has posted a 1.8GB ZIP file on their website that they claim is the
| sources, but it's not -- it contains a few .debs (not even the versions that
| ship on the machine) and some kernel headers. (Perhaps they figured nobody
| would pull 1.8GB from their slow-as-molasses site and find out.)
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http://cliffhacks.blogspot.com/2007/11/asus-eeepc-first-impressions-and-gpl.html
Related:
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon swings on the Asus Eee
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| The Gibbonfest continues. We've just had an Asus Eee in to look at - the £220
| laptop that everyone who's seen it is going to buy. It's one of the hottest
| things in the office this year: the combination of the insanely low price
| tag, the perfectly functional specification (512MB RAM, 4GB internal flash
| SSD, wi-fi, real keyboard, VGA display) and its extreme portability makes it
| an instant hit.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006278o-2000331777b,00.htm
Asus Eee PC 4G sub-sub-notebook
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| Linux buffs and geeks will love its sheer hackability. For two hundred quid,
| it's a perfect impulse buy for folk who love messing around with operating
| systems.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/16/review_asus_eee_pc/
GPL3 author calls for open source solidarity
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| But Moglen told vnunet.com in a video interview that some in the
| community will be tempted to make a "private peace with the invader".
|
| "Divide-and-conquer strategies are built around the weakness that
| it is in the interest of some people to make a private deal for
| safety and abandon communal defence," Moglen said.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2191347/gpl3-author-calls-open-source
Microsoft's Protection Racket?
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| Microsoft should have admitted that Linux matters sooner. For years,
| the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant seemed to be in denial as
| the open-source operating software made gains against its Windows
| franchise.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/04/linux-software-microsoft-tech-cx_bc_0604linux.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2rksjz
Xandros layoffs? Just staffing 'adjustments'
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| "About three weeks ago I started to see strange faces pop up in
| the conference room, and they turned out to be investors. Then
| one weekend, someone had cleaned out a [seldom-used] room and
| given it to an investor as an office. A week later we were canned."
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/24/206213
What does it mean for Microsoft
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| They get a new protocol licensee which I'm sure they'll be pleased to
| trumpet to the EU.
|
| They get a renewed messaging platform for their continued
| infatuation with customers and patents instead of customers and
| solutions. It's a broken platform which shows no leadership, but that
| apparently won't stop them from pushing it.
|
| They get to continue the messaging shades of grey around Microsoft
| Office Open XML and ODF. "Xandros and Microsoft share the view that
| competing office productivity applications should, by design,
| make it easy for customers to exchange files with one another."
| Microsoft sees its death in ODF. They will fight like a cornered
| rat and message appropriately.
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/06/the_latest_micr.html
Xandros Linux signs up for Microsoft patent protection
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| Microsoft will provide Xandros users with a patent covenant that
| protect users of the software from intellectual property claims.
| Microsoft will provide the patent license directly to the end user,
| which allows it to circumvent patent licensing requirements in the
| General Public Licence (GPL) that governs Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| Co-author of the GPLv3 Eben Moglen has denounced exclusive patent
| deals with Microsoft as a "divide and conquer" tactic that is
| designed to break up the open source community.
|
| Microsoft and Xandros declined to comment on the implications of
| GPLv3 on the deal, pointing out that licence is currently in a
| draft stage and might still change.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=53516&src=site-marq
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