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CowboyNeal
on from the under-the-hood dept.
jgwong writes "Korg's newest keyboard, called OASYS, will run Linux with a propietary software developed by themselves. With a 10.4" touchscreen, CD burner and 16-track HD audio recording this looks pretty neat. No information about availability or price, though."
Is this really in the spirit of the GPL?
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Korg's newest keyboard, called OASYS, will run Linux with a propietary software developed by themselves.
Is this really in the spirit of the GPL? If what they say is right, then they can just run Linux on their proprietary hardware, with their proprietary software on top, and not have to release any code if they didn't make changes to the Linux underneath.
To me that stinks as much as MS using BSD code, and giving no credit or return for the effort.
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Korg's newest keyboard, called OASYS, will run Linux with a propietary software developed by themselves.
Is this really in the spirit of the GPL? If what they say is right, then they can just run Linux on their proprietary hardware, with their proprietary software on top, and not have to release any code if they didn't make changes to the Linux underneath.
To me that stinks as much as MS using BSD code, and giving no credit or return for the effort.
Is there something we can do about this?