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Why did this get upvoted so many times? It has been available for years now. I'm afarid to say that I think people upvoted this without even reading the link.
by dfc 15y ago
Why did this get upvoted so many times? It has been available for years now.
I'm afarid to say that I think people upvoted this without even reading the link. I'd bet that 200+ people who voted for this thought it was the source to amazon's proprietary components. Its not, its gpl'ed code that has been available for as long as amazon has sold the kindle.
- pbreit 15y agoI'm not aware of any rules or customs around voting submissions based on publish date. I suspect the current interest is driven by the recent release of the Kindle Fire as well as questions about Amazon's duty to publish changes of certain licensed code.
- dfc 15y agoWhat questions are there related to changes to GPLd code? I don't think a 3 or 4 year old link is neccessarily newsworthy but you are right there is no rule against old content being relevant. That being said my real complaint is who cares? Linksys, Apple, Brother Printing; all these companies publish their mods to GPLd code. But people did not upvote this because they were interested in GPL mods they upvoted it because they assumed it was something else entirely and never read the link...