[Wylug-discuss] Eee pc - proprietary badness

[Nigel Metheringham]

On 9 Dec 2007, at 17:50, John Leach wrote:

> ASUS have include some binary blobs to make hardware work, which means
> it might not be easy to switch distros (which is of course just a
> symptom of the fact they are depriving you of your freedom).

Not so good, although as I understand it all of those binary chunks  
have now had source releases.


> Additionally, they appear to have violated the GPL by not releasing
> source code that they should have.  This might not be on purpose, but
> I'm not sure which explanation I prefer: malice or incompetence.

This has been fixed.

> They also "prevent" you from upgrading the RAM in it.  Prevent is in
> quotes, because there is a ram upgrade slot, and it's normal ram you
> could purchase and upgrade, but there is a "warranty void" sticker  
> over
> the slot.

Voiding warranty on a RAM upgrade would not stand up under UK consumer  
law, unless of course you upgraded with a pick-axe or similar.

	Nigel.
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