[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Interesting linux tidbit

Michael J. Lynch mlynch at gcom.com
Tue Sep 6 13:45:05 UTC 2005


chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:14:53AM -0500, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> 
>>The other day I accompanied my mother to a local big box electronics
>>store to help her purchase a sat tv system.  She ended up getting a
>>receiver with a built in DVR.  I was looking at the index for the
>>user's guide and noticed that one of the appendicies was the GNU GPL.
>>
>>I wonder...is the source available for the box...NOT!  >-)  Anyway
>>I just thought it was interesting.
> 
> 
> The GPL says that they must release the sources for any changes made to
> pre-existing GPL software.  They do not have to release the sources to
> proprietary software they developed to run on top of a GPL'd operating
> system.  That is a popular misconception that figures prominently in
> Microsoft's FUD against Linux.
> 
> 

I know that...hence "NOT".  As a matter of fact I work for a company
that does exactly this.  I'm intimately familiar with what the GPL
does and does not allow.


-- 
Michael J. Lynch

What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown



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