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Stalwarts Claim Asus eeePC Violates GPL

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the seems-like-everything-neat-does dept.

WirePosted writes "Members of the Linux community have complained that the hot new sub-notebook from Asus, the eeePC, may have violated the spirit of the Linux General Public License (GPL). Some Linux advocates claim the eeePC has not included required source code with the installed Xandros Linux distribution and does not easily enable users to install another distro. However, there are indications that eeePC fans probably don't care."

2 of 247 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Run Forrest, RUN.... by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Funny

    > ls /boot/vmlinu?
    /boot/vmlinuz
    SCNR
    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  2. Re:Source code is fair enough.. by dotgain · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nonsense. Everybody knows a more apt analogy would involve crashing the EeePC into the back of a Ford Pinto, causing the whole thing to catch fire.