From: Glennie Vignarajah <glenny@nephthys.org>
Organization: Nephthys
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible GPL violation by Free
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:39:09 +0200
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Helge Hafting a ?crit: 
 
> 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'?tre estim? au-dessus de sa valeur." 
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