[ILUG] open source article

[Niall]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:53:02PM +0000, kevin lyda wrote:
> Niall wrote:

> > I've often wondered about this. When you buy, for instance, an MPEG car,
> > do you get source code - I'd hazard a guess that you don't. I once saw an
> > interview where someone asked one of these people about source
> > availability and there was serious humming and hawing. My take on it is
> > that these people are basically ignoring the GPL when it suits them and
> > no-one has called them on it.

When I said "one of these people" here I didn't necessarily mean the EMPEG
car people. I read a lot of Linux related material, and I just don't
remember what it related to. Perhaps it was one of the Linux phone - the
Italian one with the touch screen - as I say, I really can't remember.
 
> b) there are dozens of freely available search engines.  i used google
> and came up with:
> 
> 	http://www2.empeg.com/issue14.html

Issue 14 of Empeg's newsletter came out in February. I was subscribed to it
while living in Germany but that address is not forwarded, hence I didn't
see that issue. Obviously I wasn't the only one wondering about this.

Kindest regards,


Niall  O Broin