VIA Pulls PadLockSL

yipyow writes "A few weeks ago VIA Technologies posted software based on Nullsoft's WASTE, as reported here a few days ago. VIA PadLockSL included both a Windows and Linux client and some special extensions to work with security hardware built into certain VIA products. It was released under the GPL so I managed to snag a copy of the source code right before VIA suddenly removed their page (Google cache). I have posted Linux compilation instructions and mirrored the source here. If VIA has decided not to pursue the project further, I think the F/OSS community should turn this project into something, it has potential to be a great tool."

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I AM ADOLF HITLER

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:I can see it already.

[The Old Burke]

Why is it that the GNU community and the people that work with GPL software work like you describe above? Why can't you just work in the open like other developers? Acting like a pirate is not very elite in my opinion, all that underground stuff aint benificiary to the industry.

But instead of using it to build the product, use it to plan a completely new design, and build that as a separate project altogether, using none of the original source code. Call it a different name, make it do slightly different things... when they come to bitch and moan, the damn thing won't share any lines of code. Shit, if there's int i in that source, our version should define int to INT and write INT i, just to throw off code comparison.

Is not this exactly what resulted in the problems for the Linux kernel? Borrwing code from proprietary Operating Systems is just as bad as withdrawing a usefull piece of software.

mod d0wN

[Anonymous Coward]

opinion in other sxtates that there

Re:Be careful

[buford_tannen]

Wow, you're a celebrity now. Congratulations. Also on your server getting slashdotted to pieces.

buford_tannen, aka mad_hatter

Re:Informative? INFORMATIVE?!@#$?!#@$?

[Anonymous Coward]

What a useless moderation. Couldn't you find anything more useful to do?

Re:Windows Binary Mirror

[cyt0plas]

Have you ever READ the GPL? Section 3b. Offering the source from the same place is ONE of the ways to comply. He can also offer to provide a complete machine-readable copy of the source code, or pass along the offer he got when downloading (provided he's not doing it commercially).

So shut up.