Re: freebox possible GPL violation

From: Pierre Michon
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 10:19:17 EST


Hi,

>The bottom line is the Freebox is still owned by Free when you are using
>it. It you "buy" it (by not giving it back and paying 400 EUR), you
>don't have the right anymore to plug it into free network, thus don't
>have access to freebox's firmware.
So how do you explain my point B ?

Why does it need to reboot when there is a new firmware ?

How they manage to download the firmware (need led driver, ppp, http,
adsl driver, atm stack, ...)

>but please keep that away from the LKML, this is *offtopic* here.
>This list is about *developement* of the linux kernel..
Please suggest other mailling lists.


Pierre
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