[GRLUG] WebOS for HP machines

[Michael Mol]

He just said that the code is available, but the key isn't. Without
the key, you can take all the code and compile it, but you can't run
it on your device.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> But aren't all Linux modifications supposed
> to be made available as source code?  I suppose
> a company can just say "go pound sand."
>    -- Bob
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:13 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:06:16AM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> > So yes, it appears HP might be thinking it can go the Apple route and
>> > make its OS proprietary.  But how, using a Linux kernel?
>>
>> Archos makes Linux devices that are proprietary.  All software that runs
>> on them must have a digital signature in order for the hardware to allow
>> it to run.  All the code is available though the digital signature is
>> not.  Not enough people care or it would have been cracked long ago.
>> It's a shame, too.  I have one of their portable video devices and I
>> must say it is quite amazing in its quality.  However, I cannot do
>> anything with it that Archos won't let me do.
>> --
>> john-thomas
>> ------
>> How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes
>> bountiful who are not honest.
>> Junius, pseudonym of the unknown author of a series of letters published
>> in a London newspaper during 1769-1772
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