and compared to other cell phones it simply outdoes them. The company that I worked for some time ago was asked to redo the pim applications for the phone and it was going to run (you guessed it) linux. I probably can't say much about it because of NDA's but all in all the development group was wondering when this phone would hit the US market. For what you got it didn't seem all that bulky and had a ton of features.
They should just put in some encryption in file swapping protocols and then when the RIAA trys to get around the encryption they would be breaking the law. Hackers are always going to be a step ahead of the RIAA and they should save their money going to the lawyers for the artist.
I worked for a company in Phoenix that developed similar things as the zerver. I even interviewed with Microtest when my company went under. At one time microtest even let us play around with some of their beta boxes. I knew these things were running Linux almost two years ago. When I was looking around with these boxes most of the stuff in it was stock apps. So to appease the GPL they should have provided a way to download these apps. But I also know that they had proprietary software on the zerver. To work with Novell NDS they bought some module from Novell that Novell developed for linux. They also wrote the administration stuff for the system. Does the GPL require them to release their proprietary code? If it does then I know of quite a lot of companies that are in violation of the GPL. I know of two other companies that use linux for similar products. They are Tracer and Disc. I am not sure of how they liscence their products, but if it is any way similar to what Mircotest is doing then they to are probably in violation. Anyways, I am not a law type of guy just a developer with some information.
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and compared to other cell phones it simply outdoes them. The company that I worked for some time ago was asked to redo the pim applications for the phone and it was going to run (you guessed it) linux. I probably can't say much about it because of NDA's but all in all the development group was wondering when this phone would hit the US market. For what you got it didn't seem all that bulky and had a ton of features.
Now if I could only get them to invest in some real estate in Florida....
They should just put in some encryption in file swapping protocols and then when the RIAA trys to get around the encryption they would be breaking the law. Hackers are always going to be a step ahead of the RIAA and they should save their money going to the lawyers for the artist.
I worked for a company in Phoenix that developed similar things as the zerver. I even interviewed with Microtest when my company went under. At one time microtest even let us play around with some of their beta boxes. I knew these things were running Linux almost two years ago. When I was looking around with these boxes most of the stuff in it was stock apps. So to appease the GPL they should have provided a way to download these apps. But I also know that they had proprietary software on the zerver. To work with Novell NDS they bought some module from Novell that Novell developed for linux. They also wrote the administration stuff for the system. Does the GPL require them to release their proprietary code? If it does then I know of quite a lot of companies that are in violation of the GPL. I know of two other companies that use linux for similar products. They are Tracer and Disc. I am not sure of how they liscence their products, but if it is any way similar to what Mircotest is doing then they to are probably in violation. Anyways, I am not a law type of guy just a developer with some information.