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| DATE | 2012-05-18 |
| FROM | Kevin Mark
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] You find coppies of the gpl in so many strange
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:35:21PM -0400, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> Last week my reciver on my sterio finally started to die. There were a few
> incidents over the years that damaged it but and all things considered $140
> Onkyo reciver lasted more than 10 years of near nonstop use so I feal I got my
> moneys worth out of it. So I decided to get a new Onkyo reciver one of the THX
> recivers they just came out with last month the TX-NR616. Well I got a supprise
> while looking for the english version of the quickstart guide I found my self
> looking at a printed copy of the GPL and LGPL. Aparrently my new reciver is a
> GNU/Linux box with things like libogg, libFLAC, thttpd, etc. installed. I'm not
> usually supprised when I find out an appliance runs GNU/Linux any more but it
> never occured to me my sterio might run it one day. What I found really
> supprising is they actually printed a copy of the licenses an the copyleft
> statments from all of the software installed I've never seen a company actually
> do that before, and I have to say I was plesantly surprised.
the price of 'a computer inside your device' is so cheap that everything can
run Gnu/Linux, even your toaster. And why would they choose to pay a company
license fees when its not needed? And it means that you can potentially hack it
to your liking.
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