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Harald Welte gets a black eye

Harald Welte gets a black eyeSo, slow news week?Is this what IT journalists do in summer when there's nothing else to write about, try for personal attacks as space filler?

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Discussion threads 2008-09-10

Harald Welte gets a black eye

What it sounds like to me is that VIA gave this guy a job he couldn't do so they could show their proprietary partners it couldn't be done. I've been there before, and I sympathize. But it doesn't give me warm or fuzzy feelings. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: VIA Technologies Inc., Harald Welte, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Open Source, Hardware, Components, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Taking the offensive - GPL-Violations.org

Doing my evening browsing, I ran across the GPL Violations website, put together by Harald Welte -- one of the heroes of open source (or free software, if you prefer). Welte is a contributor to several projects, including the Netfilter/iptables project that provides the framework for packet filtering, network address...

Tags: GPL, Harald Welte

Blog posts 2005-03-14

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Netgear slammed for doing the right thing

So Welte is a 30-something who thinks his $hit doesn't stink...big deal.Wow..."Harald Welte has more power than I do, power he has earned over many years with good works."Power? Is that something that makes him special? I doubt it. Is power something that impresses you Dana? I feel sorry for...

Tags: Chipsets, Routers & switches, Semiconductors, Network technology, Operating systems, Netgear Inc., open source, Linux, router, GPL, chipset, Torvalds

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

News to know: Apple updates; Google antitrust; SAP; Countrywide; Patch Tuesday

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Countrywide warning: Ex-employee may have sold customer, mortgage data Apple plugs gaping QuickTime security holes MS Patch Tuesday: 8 critical security holes patched ...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Antitrust, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-09-10

How hard is it to violate the GPL?

I screwed up yesterday. (Picture from Boycott Novell.) After re-reading my piece, your comments, and the terms of both GPL licenses carefully, it's clear to me I underestimated how easy it is for enterprises to violate its terms. But it's not impossible. Far from...

Tags: GPL, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Free hardware code a bad hack

Harald Welte, who runs GPL-Violations, has a new crusade. (Hat tip here to Heise Online, which alerted me to it. Danke, y'all.)Welte wants hardware makers to stop delivering bad freeware, and start delivering GPL-compliant code in their designs that is worthy of them.The German native wrote in his blog on...

Tags: hardware, GPL

Blog posts 2006-11-02

Are open source and copyright issues connected?

Are open source and copyright issues connected?ofcourse they are connectedOSS seems to always break copyright laws, patent laws. There were 289 or so known patent violations in Linux.CopywrongCopyrights are the bane of our time.Not only do they only profit a small, select group but they promote individuality as...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, OSS, open source, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-05-23

Will content companies avoid open source?

David Berlind recently described the Microsoft Windows Media Juggernaut as "unstoppable." I'm inclined to agree. Microsoft has a stake in every media sector that matters, and has spent years working on spreading support for its formats throughout the hardware industry. Though I can't say Microsoft has definitively won the race,...

Tags: open source

Blog posts 2005-05-26

Will content companies avoid open source?

David Berlind recently described the Microsoft Windows Media Juggernaut as "unstoppable." I'm inclined to agree. Microsoft has a stake in every media sector that matters, and has spent years working on spreading support for its formats throughout the hardware industry. Though I can't say Microsoft has definitively won the race,...

Tags: open source

Blog posts 2005-05-26

The GPL wins again

Fortinet has apparently settled the suit filed by Harald Welte earlier this month. Welte, who founded gpl-violations.org to bring vendors into compliance with the GPL, managed to get an injunction against Fortinet which banned the company from distributing products containing GPL'ed code. Now that the case with...

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Blog posts 2005-05-02

GPL legal controversy running on spin

When a reporter calls with an angle, the temptation of an analyst to go along and get their name in the paper can be irresistible. That's how I read Red Monk analyst James Governor's comments to VNUNet this week, implying that the General Public License remains under legal threat.The quote...

Tags: GPL

Blog posts 2005-04-22

A devilish argument for open source

A devilish argument for open sourceLets turn this argument around.The US allows exports of proprietary software with backdoors in it so the NSA/CIA/FBI/Military can spy on foriegn nations. Since the app is closed source/proprietary the receiving nation would not be able to review the code for any holes that the...

Tags: open source, GPL, source code, software

Discussion threads 2005-03-18

GPL, not Linux violations found by Welte

Our own Stephen Shankland has a story out illustrating the continuing confusion over the word Linux. The story is that Harald Welte, who runs the GPL Violations Project, found 13 hardware companies at CeBIT who were violating the GPL of GNU-Linux by not releasing code based on it.'The GPL is...

Tags: GPL

Blog posts 2005-03-17