I'd like to see that too. You've got me curious now. ;) For Sean: This article is well worth the read, and may help clear up some misconceptions: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851 On 2/22/07, Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> wrote: > > On Thursday 22 February 2007 10:00, Jordan Peacock wrote: > > I didn't realize that; I was under the impression that distribution > > of code (whether 'bundled' in hardware or not) was under the > > restrictions of the license. Otherwise, what's to prevent me from > > selling computers fully loaded with software and denying access to > > the source code using the same concepts? > > Because in the case of a computer you have access to the filesystems > and binaries and can distribute them to other commodity devices. In > the case of your microwave the only way to get the software off it is > to remove the ROMs from the devices and use specialized hardware to > get them off, and in the end you have a 'program' that will only run > on their hardware. > > I'm not completely talking out my ass here yanno, I know several > people that work in the embedded hardware industry and have > investigated this pretty carefully. If this was an issue people > wouldn't be doing it. > > If you think cisco is violating the law I'd like to see proof of > it...such as a court case they've lost and had to pay out to someone. > > Or you can try and get a copy of the firmware in your microwave. > > More than willing to be proven wrong here..... > > -- > Thanks, > > Josh Paetzel > -- Jordan Peacock hewhocutsdown at gmail.com hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070222/20a3af2e/attachment.htm