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Linux for Home Electronics

Posted by michael on from the it's-just-better-with-the-penguin dept.

ives writes "Matsushita (Panasonic) and Sony are going to develop a Linux platform for digital home electronic devices. The nice thing is that they want to release the jointly developed source code for this project under the GPL. The press release mentions open source, the GPL and even Richard Stallman :^)."

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  1. Re:Wow by eht · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even better for business use is the new style BSD license as you aren't required to release source and you can actually make a profit off the software itself and not only sell support.