From what I read in the article, nobody is really *sure* that the licence has been violated.
Linksys are not profiting directly due to this violation which may or may not have even occured, so I do not see why people are concentrating on the negative aspects of this (that might not even be there).
What happened to the good old days of 'Corporate Interest of Linux' and various pro-penguin chants?
Getting a little offtopic now..
What's got the higer priority: getting companies to print the GPL in their manuals, or getting companies to release high qulaity *ware with linux (for free!)
It could be argued that GPL compliancy will make it better, but as far as I can see it's still much better than what it could potentially have been.
Sega's games have always been much better than their consoles.
Perhaps they've realised this and are using a release of a classic game to a non-sega console as a little more of publicity teaser. An indication of what's to come, so to speak.
Mansfield LUG (In nottinghamshire) currently has a discussion going on this.
On the members works at the Mansfield council and has been pushing Linux for years. The only realy barrier is that the guy in charge of IT is anti-linux - but he's Unix programmer.
Another member works for another local council. He has managed to get linux onto their servers by way of stealth. Their mail servers were orignially just a 'test' to see if linux would be able to cope. Since then they've ditched their previous server OSes and have replaced them with Linux. They've been trying to get Linux on as the desktops too. No success with 'those with the say' there at all.
This decision by the Nottingham council may be more pursuasive.
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Do we see here proof that unethical corporate practices (sueing everyone) will eventually be the destruction of your business? I for one hope so.
Linksys are not profiting directly due to this violation which may or may not have even occured, so I do not see why people are concentrating on the negative aspects of this (that might not even be there).
What happened to the good old days of 'Corporate Interest of Linux' and various pro-penguin chants?
Getting a little offtopic now..
What's got the higer priority: getting companies to print the GPL in their manuals, or getting companies to release high qulaity *ware with linux (for free!)
It could be argued that GPL compliancy will make it better, but as far as I can see it's still much better than what it could potentially have been.
In all fairness, the two products are not related. WASTE was basically a p2p file sharing thing while this encrption is for AIM
The two events may be related, but I doubt that they are dependant.
It's funny because it's true
But at least we're now safe to discuss our credit card numbers
Actually, this could have some ecommerce potential
It already is encrypted, isn't it?
foxy28uk192323342 says: h1 asl lol
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brandon343jfdh says: lol brb fs
Maybe I'm just cynical
Sega's games have always been much better than their consoles.
Perhaps they've realised this and are using a release of a classic game to a non-sega console as a little more of publicity teaser. An indication of what's to come, so to speak.
Mansfield LUG (In nottinghamshire) currently has a discussion going on this. On the members works at the Mansfield council and has been pushing Linux for years. The only realy barrier is that the guy in charge of IT is anti-linux - but he's Unix programmer. Another member works for another local council. He has managed to get linux onto their servers by way of stealth. Their mail servers were orignially just a 'test' to see if linux would be able to cope. Since then they've ditched their previous server OSes and have replaced them with Linux. They've been trying to get Linux on as the desktops too. No success with 'those with the say' there at all. This decision by the Nottingham council may be more pursuasive.