| [Files] New AmigaOne firmware available | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 06-Oct-2004 12:44 GMT by Rik Sweeney | 226 comments
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A news item on AmigaWorld.net states that Hyperion has released the update of U-Boot to 1.1.1
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| New AmigaOne firmware available : Comment 90 of 226 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Bernie Meyer on 07-Oct-2004 16:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 89 (Amon_Re):
I can't speak for others, but the reason *I* looked into the GPL compliance of this U-Boot update was because of Hans-Joerg's 'The whole of this "GPL violation" crap is really ridiculous' comment. In my eyes, it was too aggressive to not be challenged (and the same goes for Thomas's so-show-me-or-shut-up kind of statement.
And you will notice that I was quite nice about challenging it, too. I did not attack anyone, I simply pointed out that the statement was wrong, and that *in this case* there had indeed been a GPL violation.
You will hopefully further notice that before posting, I checked my facts. And before posting in reply to comment 47, I checked a lot more; I probably downloaded over 10MB worth of archives to actually look and see how the authors handled the GPL. One of them I had to transfer to a different machine to look at, because the version of lha used was newer than the one on my browser machine, and a readme wouldn't unpack. It took a long time to write that reply (not the least because I was doing all this during idle-times in my work-from-home job), but in the end, you can be sure that it was factually correct.
The Friedens didn't do that. They simply jumped up and down and proclaimed moral superiority, *without* checking the facts. That's not a nice thing to do, and calling them on it is not a nasty thing do. |
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