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Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code?

Posted by chrisd on from the bad-company-no-cookie-for-you dept.

Jonathan Riddell writes "`It would appear that Castle Technology Limited, UK, have taken some of the Linux 2.5 code, and incorporated it into their own product, "RISC OS", which is distributed in binary ROM form built into machines they sell. This code is linked with other proprietary code.' Full details from Russell King on lkml."

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  1. so which is worse by digitalsushi · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    which is worse... stealing non-free code, or selling free code?

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  2. I don't think they'll have time.... by siskbc · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...since they typically spend all day trying to convince people to say GNU/Linux...

    Stallman...hahaha...

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  3. Identifying a file's type. by Mr+Z · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Under UNIX, use "file foo " to try to determine the type of contents in foo. It uses pattern information in the file /etc/magic to make its guess.

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  4. not to be cynical, but... by carpe_noctem · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So I was dating this girl in a sorority for awhile. And things were going OK, but then we broke up. Now, there are a LOT of hot girls in this sorority, and once we broke up, I was pretty much barred from dating any of them. Oh, well. Now just gotta look in other places for booty. ;]

    The thing that's disturbing is that after we broke up, it's kind of this sorority rule that they'll go out of their way to be mean to you, because you hurt one of their poor sisters. So now, not only am I barred from dating anyone else in that sorority, but odds are that if I try to talk to them, they'll just be total jerks to me for no reason and be just generally mean to me because of my ex-girlfriend.

    Now, instead of dealing with problems like this on our own, a whole sorority of unthinking and unquestioning people can somehow get involved in a situation like this and leap down my throat for no good reason, and WITHOUT ever having heard my side of the story. Sound a bit familiar?

    Seems like /. is kind of becoming an online version of this. "Oh no Microsoft is so bad or listen to this evil thing Apple did", and then hundreds of people go out there and flame these companies without ever having heard from them first. A bit blind, don't you think?

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  5. Re:Stephen King dead at age fifty something by Salsaman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A beowulf cluster of mourners was expected to attend his funeral.