On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:33:25AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok...
> so as I understand it... Sony WAS violating the GPL which caused the
> authors of a mostly working USB driver for the Clie to stop developement.
> Thsi was gleamed from a /. story. It also implied that part of this was
> due to a sony employee brushing off said developer and saying essentialy
> that sony didn't care and their lawyers would crush them... However I
> also heard that sony has since rectified the error in their ways and
> released their source for the Clie Version of POSER - the main point of
> contention. Is this true? if so is the Clie USB driver going forward.
> Is Sony still putting up a stink? if so can I help get them pointed in
> the right direction? I'll do what it takes to get the message to Sony
> that they are meat heads for not allowing others to develope software for
> them. Of course I also don't want to trod upon toes that are in the
> process of making amends. I'm tired of companies screwing rights of the
> little guy (copyright is for the corp, not the artist / coder). Instead
> of giving up on writing the driver how about we get this issue
> straightened out.
>
> IMHO this isn't a matter of Linux platform advocacy... Its a matter of
> violating those very intelectual property rights that these big
> corperations are fighting for... But I don't have recent developements...
> I only want to act if its in the right place. If they are not giving up I
> want to return my Clie... I don't want to own a piece of hardware which
> is being developed in violation of the GPL.
I'm not going to speak of David's experience with POSER, but he and I
were trying to work to reverse engineer the USB protocol for the device.
Now that he has stopped working on it, and the fact that the new Palm
M500 and M505 devices support USB, the Clie project has been dropped to
try to get the Palm devices working (wider market, more users, etc.)
If you want to help with the Clie development let me know. You will
need access to a Windows machine running the USB Snoopy program.
thanks,
greg k-h
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