There is a case where an firewall appliance maker ,I forget who, that is going to court over their use of Linux on the appliance.
Thanks Marc Aylesworth C3I Associates AFRL/IFSE Joint Battlespace Infosphere Team 525 Brooks Rd Rome, NY 13441-4505 Tel:315.330.2422 Fax:315.330.7009 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Berman Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: CMS NEWS: ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD,SOFTWARE DELIVERED TO, PHYSICIAN OFFICES On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 09:00 -0600, Cameron Schlehuber wrote: > And as for the examples of hiding code in an "appliance" and selling -that-, > well, if I sold a PC as an "appliance" with Windows XP and didn't forward > the license fees to Microsoft, and made a big enough splash that got > Microsoft's attention, my "black box" would likely be sufficiently reverse > engineered by Microsoft to skewer me in court. The same logic would apply > to any other license where there was sufficient motivation to figure out > what was in the black box. > > Cameron. Unfortunately Cameron, Microsoft does not release its software under the GPL. And selling an appliance with their software without paying the fees is illegal. That is not the case with the GPL. There are companies *TODAY* doing just what I am talking about. It is legal (although unethical a bit IMO) but it is totally legal. --Todd ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
