[GRLUG] WebOS for HP machines

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:22 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> Is that all....  I take that as a distinction
> without a difference. 

It is a difference *with* significance.  You have the code.  Requiring
signed binaries is a feature of the *device* [probably its firmware].

All license requirements are met.  You are free to build your own device
that will accept unsigned binaries.

> Just one more way of making it de facto proprietary, and 
> getting around the intent of open software.

Open Source isn't about intent, it is about code.  "Intent", or
practice, is an entirely other kind of thing. 


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