Asus eeePC Violates GPL Say Linux Stalwarts

November 25th, 2007 | Category: OS

Members of the Linux community have complained that the hot new sub-notebook from Asus, the eeePC, may have violated the spirit of the Linux General Public License. Some Linux advocates claim the eeePC has not included needed source cipher with the installed Xandros Linux distribution and does not

easily enable users to install another distro. However, there are indications that eeePC fans probably don’t care.

Original post by donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)

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