Freecom violates GPL

[Armijn Hemel]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:59 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2008 5:29 PM, smirnoff onice <zddog_nl at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >  Yep, and an answer on the freecom forum too...progress?
> > http://forum.freecompromo.com/viewtopic.php?t=3441
> > Thanks all (but not over yet)
> 
>   This is what I don't quite understand.  Why are they having a hard
> time separating out their proprietary software from the GPLed
> software.  From a configuration standpoint, the difficulty doesn't
> make much sense, as I highly doubt anyone would have proprietary code
> sitting side by side and intertwined with an operating environment.

Simple: Freecom doesn't make their own devices, they just resell ODM
devices. They don't have their own OS engineers. So, the real problem is
upstream *their* supply chain, where it has to be solved. Knowing how
ODM companies work the whole seperation will be, ehr, a challenge :-P

armijn

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