On Wed,29.Oct.08, 22:11:27, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I am not realy sure, 50.000 customers would accept hardware which cost > 45 US$ instead of 40 US$ because there are 2-3 OSS frickler which want > access to the source because they want to fix something. > > Do you would give the FIXES back to the manufacturer? I thought that was the nice thing about GPL. If you want to distribute your changes the receiver has to get the source too ;) > IF the hardware is working under Linux, BSD, MacOS, Windows and others, > are you realy willing to give the changes back even the other users are > using Windows? > > I know a hardware manufacturer which gaved the sourcecode away under GPL > and it is IN the Debian distribution, but its OSS frickler upstream has > never gaved the changes back to the manufacturer so others can benefit > from it... The manufacturer can get it with a copy of Debian if he wants to ;) > Note: The OSS firmware IS NOT compatibel with Windows and does > not add any additional functionalyty except it is open! And why is this NOT important? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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