On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble identifying if this is free software or not. > > I took a look on Wikipedia and it stated that it is a "proprietary > model", whatever that means. Then I took a look at the website and it > requires you to provide them with personal details to be sent a link, > by e-mail, to the source. > > The Wikipedia article seems to link to an e-mailed ID access to the > source. So I downloaded the source that is provided but my poor > programming experience means I was unable to identify if it is > complete or not. > > One thing I would note is that the software is covered by the GPL > license yet they require you to provide them with an e-mail address to > be given access to it. > > Motherboards have been sold with this software on, right? If that's > the case then surely this is a violation of the GPL. > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Chris Rowson wrote: >>> I know many of you probably read Slashdot, but just in case you missed >>> it, what do you think of this news? Basically, Asus are going to have >>> a Linux desktop pre-installed onto a chip on every motherboard they >>> sell. >>> >>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/173220 >>> >>> ""We first heard about Splashtop back in October, when the instant-on >>> Linux desktop was announced. At the time it was a really exciting >>> concept but Asus only rolled out the technology on high-end >>> motherboards. Splashtop just announced that Asus will be expanding the >>> desktop to the P5Q motherboard family and later on to all Asus >>> motherboards. That's embedded Linux shipping over over a million >>> motherboards a month! The release also mentioned that the technology >>> will be appearing on notebooks this year as well." >>> >>> Good eh? >>> >>> Chris >>> >> >> That's good news. I heard bits about this when I was looking for an >> upgrade earlier on this year, unfortanately it didn't cover the mid >> range boards I was looking at. >> >> Still, sounds promising. >> >> Rob >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >> > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
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