>>Tonight's Seattle paper reports the iToaster (from a local
>>company, so perhaps they have real news) is BeOS only and
>>that the rumors that there is Linux inside are false.
> I'd be inclined to run their code through a disasm...
> Perhaps they "let the cat out of the bag" and are trying to cover
> themselves now. Didn't the BEOS people steal device driver code
> from Linux in the past? And afterwards drop the drivers when
> threatened with possible legal action?
No, thay published source code. If binary drivers in Linux kernel are
not violation of GPL then driver is not really linked to kernel and so
GPL driver for BeOS is not violation of GPL as well...
P.S. Unfortunatelly we can not do anything till iToaster will be really
available...
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