[Arm-netbook] $250 Dev Kit

[Philip Hands]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:14:35 +0000, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
...
>  well the problem is that if it's linux kernel GPL compliance, that's
> game over for them, right there.  you imagine trying to ask 1,000+
> copyright holders for permission to reinstate their rights...
> 
>  ... it's not going to happen, is it?  apart from anything, many
> people have moved on from their old company / email address.

... or died -- you have a good point.

> this is rather unfortunate, because it's basically a death sentence
> for any company, to take them on.  but, maybe that's what's needed.
> 
>  if so, i know the perfect SoC company to do that to.  they have the
> worst of both worlds, because they started off as a China-based
> GPL-violating company and got bought by a USA-based company who then
> put litigous paranoid lawyers on top of _that_ mess, who then lied to
> me about their willingness to sort out their GPL-violating NDA.
> 
> taking out an entire SoC vendor because they are operating as a
> criminal organisation because of software piracy and copyright
> violation might just get the message across not to fuck with the GPL.
> at least that's the theory, anyway.

Sounds great -- let's do it :-)

Cheers, Phil.
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