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Re: [News] Kororaa XGL Live CD Goes Underground, Mandriva 2007 Hits Beta 2

Once upon a midnight dreary, while Roy Schestowitz pondered weak and weary
over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore...:

> __/ [ Kier ] on Wednesday 16 August 2006 17:10 \__
> 
>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:51:31 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> Xgl Live CD
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | The Kororaa Xgl Live CD has been taken offline due to GPL violation
>>> | by distributing the ATI and nVidia drivers with the Linux kernel.
>>> | 
>>> | We would like to apologise to the Linux developer community and thank
>>> | everyone for their support, especially the end users who have loved
>>> | our Live CD.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>>                         http://kororaa.org/static.php?page=xgl-livecd
>> 
>> That's a pity, it's a great Live CD for demonstrating XGL. Let's hope
>> they find a GPL-suitable way around the problem.
> 
> Bittorrent? *smile* I suppose that SUSE 10.2, with what probably will be a
> one-click setup of XGL, will give this static (i.e. no longer in
> development) project a run for its money. It could 'drain' the torrents,
> in due time. Not that I endorse these torrents...

and why would you not endorse torrents? They're a great distribution medium,
in that everybody who uses them to download (Linux) simultaneously gets to
redistribute. Which is allowed by the GPL. Linux torrents, IME, are also
invariably /bloody fast/.
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