[ubuntu-uk] Linux to appear on every Asus motherboard

[Kris Douglas]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Jai Harrison <jai at jaiharrison.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble identifying if this is free software or not.
>
> I took a look on Wikipedia and it stated that it is a "proprietary
> model", whatever that means. Then I took a look at the website and it
> requires you to provide them with personal details to be sent a link,
> by e-mail, to the source.
>
> The Wikipedia article seems to link to an e-mailed ID access to the
> source. So I downloaded the source that is provided but my poor
> programming experience means I was unable to identify if it is
> complete or not.
>
> One thing I would note is that the software is covered by the GPL
> license yet they require you to provide them with an e-mail address to
> be given access to it.
>
> Motherboards have been sold with this software on, right? If that's
> the case then surely this is a violation of the GPL.
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
>> Chris Rowson wrote:
>>> I know many of you probably read Slashdot, but just in case you missed
>>> it, what do you think of this news? Basically, Asus are going to have
>>> a Linux desktop pre-installed onto a chip on every motherboard they
>>> sell.
>>>
>>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/173220
>>>
>>> ""We first heard about Splashtop back in October, when the instant-on
>>> Linux desktop was announced. At the time it was a really exciting
>>> concept but Asus only rolled out the technology on high-end
>>> motherboards. Splashtop just announced that Asus will be expanding the
>>> desktop to the P5Q motherboard family and later on to all Asus
>>> motherboards. That's embedded Linux shipping over over a million
>>> motherboards a month! The release also mentioned that the technology
>>> will be appearing on notebooks this year as well."
>>>
>>> Good eh?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>
>> That's good news.  I heard bits about this when I was looking for an
>> upgrade earlier on this year, unfortanately it didn't cover the mid
>> range boards I was looking at.
>>
>> Still, sounds promising.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
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