xfdesktop2 or xfdesktop-acer source

David Mohr squisher at xfce.org
Mon Feb 16 21:25:25 CET 2009


On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 13.02.2009, 08:04 -0700 schrieb David Mohr:
>
>> The question is, do they? I know someone on this list who has tried
>> for months, and I myself have made one (weak) attempt with no success.
>
> I guess you are talking about me, cause I have been trying to reach Acer
> since September and have been in contact with their European product
> manager without success. First I got a mail that said he would help me
> and I should stay tuned, then I got a reply that only mentioned the
> already well known ftp site. So obviously this person does not have a
> clue what I was talking about. I explained again that there were
> binaries inside the srpm and that Thunar was missing all together, but
> since then, I did not receive any response to my last 3 mails.

Yes, I was talking about you, but figured you'd speak up once you had
the time to reply :-).

> This is why I'm now going to hand things over to fedora-legal
> (Acer/Linpus are also violating Fedora's intellectual property) and to
> gpl-violations.org. gpl-violations.org will take care for the Xfce part,
> fedora-legal will verify the violations of Fedora stuff and inform Red
> Hat Legal dept. if necessary.

Thank you for getting this started and please keep us updated!

~David



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