Comments on: Software Patent Deals, Mono, and Other Legal Timebombs http://techrights.org/2008/06/02/mono-deals-trojan/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/06/02/mono-deals-trojan/comment-page-1/#comment-11670 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:22:10 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/02/mono-deals-trojan/#comment-11670 Yes, I remember that. A hacker checked to see what Asus made available, found that it was just a bunch of debs, complained about it, I passed on the word to Stan Beer whose complaint made the front page of Slashdot and then it was all rectified by Asus, which also put up this polite message.

I don’t believe that the Eee PC is ‘tainted’, as some put it. I actually promote it as much as I can, as long as it’s XP-free.

In fact, if anything about it is to be avoided, it’s the Intel chips. Intel used Asus at the time in order to fight OLPC. I’d show you the proof if you need it. The price-fixing needed to end.

]]> By: aeshna23 http://techrights.org/2008/06/02/mono-deals-trojan/comment-page-1/#comment-11668 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:03:14 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/02/mono-deals-trojan/#comment-11668 Sam’s argument would improve if he could point to an example of where M$ could attack. The source code of the eeePC is available at

http://support.asus.com/download/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

Asus says “The source code found here is complete to the best of Asus’s knowledge. If you believe any additional source code files should be provided under the applicable open source license, please contact Asus at support@asus.com and provide in detail the product or code module in question. Asus is committed to meeting the requirements of the open source licenses including the GNU General Public License.”

While I have no doubt that M$ is up to no good, I’m a little reluctant to believe that the eeePC is the vector for its evil.

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