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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.
Is there something we can do about this?
Re:Death to muslims!
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This is a tool for REAL musicians that make their living off of their instruments, not for some douchebag's project studio. Posts like yours are utterly ridiculous. "Why buy this totally integrated all-in-one product that works correctly straight out of the box when you can cobble together something that can do almost as much in a highly inferior way, for a lot less money?" Please dude, shut the fuck up.
-- 'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
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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?
Fuck you witye
This is a tool for REAL musicians that make their living off of their instruments, not for some douchebag's project studio. Posts like yours are utterly ridiculous. "Why buy this totally integrated all-in-one product that works correctly straight out of the box when you can cobble together something that can do almost as much in a highly inferior way, for a lot less money?" Please dude, shut the fuck up.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.