From: Glennie Vignarajah <glenny@nephthys.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible GPL violation by Free
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:39:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410112139.09905.glenny@nephthys.org> (raw)
Helge Hafting a écrit:
> Perhaps customers can demand to _rent_ the source code too then?
After few discussions on proad.free.adsl and on linuxfr.org
(http://linuxfr.org/~superzen/15187.html), it seems that Free
_lends_ the Freebox (at no charge) while people use their Internet
Access. When one stops his Internet Access abonnement, he has sent
it back.
Moreover, Freebox boots (each power cycle) over the network and
downloads the OS (which seems to Linux and it's not resident). The
bootstrap code used to boot over network is from Broadcom (for V4
model). So even if you can buy it, you just have a box without any
OS inside.
--
Glennie
"Personne ne survit au fait d'être estimé au-dessus de sa valeur."
next reply other threads:[~2004-10-11 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-11 19:39 Glennie Vignarajah [this message]
2004-10-11 20:05 ` David Schwartz
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2004-11-01 21:33 Pierre
2004-10-11 7:12 Matthieu Castet
2004-10-09 17:58 Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-09 18:48 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-10 9:12 ` Sam Hocevar
2004-10-10 15:34 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-10 16:23 ` Sam Hocevar
2004-10-10 16:46 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-10 21:55 ` David Schwartz
2004-10-10 10:28 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-10-11 0:59 ` Eric Rannaud
2004-10-11 2:06 ` David Schwartz
2004-10-11 2:24 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-11 7:14 ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-11 13:45 ` Eric Rannaud
2004-10-10 19:40 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-11 0:06 ` Moritz Muehlenhoff
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