12 Jan
2006
12 Jan
'06
4:10 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 16:26 +0100, Jay Vaughan wrote:
No, it's not a pity at all, we should not support GPL violators by
buying their hardware.
Lee
I told him I
was keen to buy one - but would hold back until the GPL
was being complied with.
well, that'd be a pity, because there's not actually anything about
their code release thats going to prevent you from running your own
code on it .. there's nothing stopping you from upgrading the kernel
to an open one, nothing preventing you from writing new code for the
platform, which is open, functioning, and able to run whatever code
you write for it. the only issue is that there are bins being
shipped with source not available; but you can most certainly port
whatever source you want to the machine, including source for the
onboard apps available elsewhere, so its not really a barrier to
enjoying the platform; it is, of course, yet again, "niggly
dogmatics" versus 'those who are writing code and getting on with it'