[GRLUG] WebOS for HP machines

[Bob Kline]

Is that all....  I take that as a distinction
without a difference.  Just one more way
of making it de facto proprietary, and
getting around the intent of open software.

   -- Bob


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> >> 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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