Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 16, 2006 01:59 PM
So they've been dipping their toe in the water for 3 years?
VIA has been making source available for that long because it does help their business model.
The trouble is that they haven't completely grasped the whole concept, and the different parts of VIA are only using those bits of the concept they are interested in. Hence VIA lawyers trying to wriggle around the GPL, hence VIA programmers not caring about licenses, hence VIAs marketing being that two-faced.
But then, there's always been a big gap between VIAs marketing and VIAs reality. At least now Fionas comments put marketing quite a bit closer to reality.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 16, 2006 01:59 PMVIA has been making source available for that long because it does help their business model.
The trouble is that they haven't completely grasped the whole concept, and the different parts of VIA are only using those bits of the concept they are interested in. Hence VIA lawyers trying to wriggle around the GPL, hence VIA programmers not caring about licenses, hence VIAs marketing being that two-faced.
But then, there's always been a big gap between VIAs marketing and VIAs reality. At least now Fionas comments put marketing quite a bit closer to reality.
Luc Verhaegen.
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