On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 12:33:39PM +0200, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
because that means they get an stable and well performing OS at zero
cost for their embedded designes what makes these chips sell better.
So what? Wasn't it idea of free Software to get it without paying for
it?
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:33:21PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
That doesn't matter. It's still Linux-based and you still need to release the
modified sources (I'd say enough to allow the building of a complete
filesystem image for the device).
To make it clear: This whole argument is *ONLY*
I demand that Georg Acher may or may not have written...
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:33:21PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
That doesn't matter. It's still Linux-based and you still need to release
the modified sources (I'd say enough to allow the building of a complete
filesystem image for the
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:55:04PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Georg Acher may or may not have written...
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:33:21PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
That doesn't matter. It's still Linux-based and you still need to release
the modified sources (I'd say enough
Georg Acher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, it's not. Free is free, you can't make differences between
hardware vendors using Linux as a basis for their HW and SW vendors
using Linux as an OS for their SW. And that's exactly the intention
of your wording (zero cost).
strange interpretation of
On 01.07.2007 19:40, Georg Acher wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:47:18PM +0200, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
or better or whatever. cool, no problem. what? you signed a NDA that
does not allow you distribute the os in the first place? your bad.
Once again, and now in capitals.
IT'S
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:43:04PM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
If only the hardware vendors where as united as the movie-industry.
HDCP was invented by Intel, Silicon Image holds a lot of patents on DVI and
HDMI. As long as they can sell chips and licenses, they don't care about the
I demand that Georg Acher may or may not have written...
[snip]
And quite frankly, the dumb consumer doesn't care about HDCP and its
implications. Compared to DRM on music, HDCP is invisible to him, he has no
visible disadvantage.
That's as may be... however, it does seem to be ignoring those
On 01.07.2007 21:10, Georg Acher wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:43:04PM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
If only the hardware vendors where as united as the movie-industry.
HDCP was invented by Intel, Silicon Image holds a lot of patents on DVI and
HDMI. As long as they can sell