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HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone (Freedom to Tinker)

HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone (Freedom to Tinker)

Posted Oct 12, 2010 17:26 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone (Freedom to Tinker) by fandingo
Parent article: HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone (Freedom to Tinker)

This is a situation where contacting customs may be more appropriate than the courts. According to Harald Welte, HTC has a habit of shipping new devices to the US, releasing source after 90 days, and then shipping to Europe (which is why Harald doesn't do anything about it; by the time he can get the evidence to make a claim, the problem has been fixed). If customs in the US knew about this, they could have a corresponding habit of holding HTC shipments until the source was released. Since HTC's motive is likely to have devices in customers' hands generating buzz as soon as possible, this would probably hurry them along quite effectively. Sure, they can try to ship their devices and fix their license compliance before anyone sues them, but the devices wouldn't get there on time if they try it, and they'd lose exactly the edge they're trying to get by cheating.


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HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone (Freedom to Tinker)

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