VIA’s unfortuante open source deja vu
Deja vu, the experience of experiencing something that you feel you’ve experienced before, hit me while reading about hardware maker VIA and its latest forays and fumbles in open source.
It was with great interest that I’ve been following VIA’s announcement of an open reference design for notebook PCs, known as OpenBook. It was even described by some as an ‘open source notebook design.’ I thought this would be a good move by VIA, which has struggled with its open source strategy in the past. Nevertheless, the company has enjoyed a Linux following over the years and may be among those with the most to gain from Linux success in new form factors, such as netbooks.
However, I got a first dose of deja vu when
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