From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269203AbUJKTjQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:39:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269205AbUJKTjQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:39:16 -0400 Received: from nemesis.nephthys.org ([82.67.27.49]:59594 "EHLO mx1.nephthys.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269203AbUJKTjP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:39:15 -0400 From: Glennie Vignarajah Organization: Nephthys To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: possible GPL violation by Free Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:39:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410112139.09905.glenny@nephthys.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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."