CT-PC89E - translation of meaning behind this alibaba page

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Arnt Karlsen <arnt at c2i.net> wrote:

>> i thought about asking them if they could merely provide a copy of the
>> engineer's hard drive: that would take absolutely zero of his time,
>> but i was going to offer that _after_ they agreed to comply.
>>
>> i wasn't expecting total abandonment of the product.
>>
>> ideas, anyone?
>
> ..just report them for software piracy and let Chinese Law
> enforcement deal with them.  Neck shots will have the next
> guys comply with copyright law.

 *sigh*.

 well, in discussions with rms, i happened to mention chitech's gpl
violation.  he asked if any gnu FSF projects were in the list of
software and i said yep, gtk+, bash, gnome, libncurses, libgcrypt,
libc and a couple of others, so that will get passed on, wheels will
begin turning.  also it occurred to me that if you mirror
http://repositories.mid-linux.org/extras then you are entitled to
request the source code of _that_, from mid at mid-fun.com dash
webmaster at mid-fun.com aka postmaster at mid-fun.com (it's
http://mid-linux.org / http://mid-fun.com where all the trouble
started because they didn't place all source code online in the first
place).

 so, by mirroring repositories.mid-linux.org where there are
additional binaries (including FSF projects) a gpl source code process
can begin moving on them, as well.


... i do get the distinct impression though that chitech have simply
and quietly sold all machines, _and_ i suspect the engineer's software
development machine, to that other company, Dafurong.
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/277571430/8_9_TFT_LED_2GB_NAND.html

 based on the removal of the proferred "Lunix" OS, i surmise that the
Dafurong engineers took one look at the dog's dinner of the source
code, went "pfffh", and instantly changed the "specification" to
"Supports Wince (not included)".

l.