<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">so you get your 50 quid access point, it has full source code with it, you start to<br>add radius authentication , 802.1x, extra management functionality, VPN server etc etc,<br><br>so you turn a 50quid piece of hardware in to the same as what cisco sell for £2000 ?<br><br>so, do you see where the problems lies, you pay for features, with open source<br>you could just add em yourself. <br><br>Cisco should really get this cleared up quickly, so they can concentrate on plugging<br>the overflow holes they have with their closed source ios 'operating system'.<br><br>much better than suing them, make them host linux iso's and repositories for life!<br><br>I think they may have some bandwidth to spare?<br><br>hahahahah<br><br>Cheers,<br>Lee<br><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 13/12/08, Dan Bolser <i><dan.bolser@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Dan Bolser <dan.bolser@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Cisco & GPL Violation<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Saturday, 13 December, 2008, 10:07 PM<br><br><pre>On 13/12/2008, gordon dunlop <astrozubenel@googlemail.com> wrote:<br>> The Free Software Foundation is taking Cisco to court on violations<br>> against the GPL, it will be very interesting to see what happens in<br>> this court case regarding the GPL and what happens if companies abuse<br>> this system:<br>><br>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gpl-violations-cisco-big-one<br><br>I was certainly impressed when my linksys arrived with a printed copy<br>of the GPL inside. It was the first time I'd ever seen it like that,<br>and I really started to think 'wow!'<br><br>I hope this goes 'well', whatever that
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