On Monday 10 July 2006 12:10, Joe Wells (reverse mailbox letters only for non-public replies) wrote: > Unfortunately, much of this work has > been done by people who like to distribute binaries and appear not to > like to share source (you can see this stuff at motorolafans.com), so > I may have to repeat some of this work.
Well, if this software is GPL'd (or under a similar compulsory-sharing license) they have no choice. People should be telling them this, and preferably also notifying the copyright holder(s) so they can pursue the matter. People that do this kind of stuff frustrate me to no end. I have a Motorola E815 that needed some, ahem, persuasion to enable features I had bought and paid for (thanks, Verizon Wireless!) and much of the software needed for this task was binary-only Windows software put out by exactly these types of people (I had to do a native--no Qemu/Vmware--install of Windows XP just for this). They seem to be prevelant in the mobile electronics world for whatever reason. But, I digress. This is a bit OT. -- Andrew Barr | http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/ "This is like my works in that anyone who reads them is likely to be an a**hole for at least a month afterwards." -- "Ayn Rand", supposedly quoted on the back of "America (the book)" by The Daily Show w/Jon Stewart _______________________________________________ Oe mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe
