Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: [Commercial]Wanted Linux Hacker - Linuxers

13 Aug 2004


      Hey ppl ,
don't mind my asking you but...after al= l is said and done...what
   exactly are you looking for this "Linux Hack= er"?
Raseel.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 Anil Gupte = wrote :
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Thank you for clarifying.  You more or less got it r= ight.  My
mistake,
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perhaps, was calling it "proprietary= " without explaining how.
And frankly I
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do not complet= ely understand where they may have violated the
GPL (if at
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all).&= nbsp; The Linux portion is not proprietary as far as I can
tell, but in
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combination with instructions that are buried on a proprietary
(this= time
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the word is correctly used) chip, the code is not available= .
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We are not doing anything illegal, but we are trying= to write
third party
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software to support this device.  Unfo= rtunately, the company
frowns on
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anything that they do not contro= l, so we are forced to "hack"
into it.
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Hope = this helps clarify any confusion I may have caused.
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An= il Gupte
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----- Original Message -----
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From:= "Rajesh Rajani" rajeshr@vsnl.com
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To: <linux= ers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:47 = AM
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Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Re: [Commercial]Wanted Linux Hacker
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Hi all,
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I g= uess we are all going off on the wrong foot here.
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= ; > If Anil wants someone to hack into a linux box which is said
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proprietory, it seems that he is the wronged party since
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recieve
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the source along with the binary = as per the GPL.
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Linux can be as proprietory= or as open as you want. It just
depends on to
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whom you dis= tribute the binaries. If you don't distribute,
then you can do
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&= gt; whatever you want with the sources without giving it out
to anyone.
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Anyway, from what I see about Anil's requests,= he wants
someone to hack
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into a linux box and install some= software. This may or may
not involve
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writing any software= . It may be more a question of finding
out weaknesses
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in th= e linux distribution on the box and exploiting them.
Doesn't look
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any GPL is being violated here though the ethics may = be
questionable.
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Just my $0.02.
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Regards,
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Rajesh
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