arstechnica.com— Verizon becomes the latest company to be tripped up by the GPL. The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit over an application used in some of the telecom's FiOS hardware.
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This does not comply with the GPL. They have to provide a written offer telling people what to do to get the source, or provide the source with the router, as they are the distributor.Also, they have made additional changes when they adapted the router to their own purposes.
Verizon is a piece of crap company. Before Vonage, Verizon would charge me $200 for worse service then Vonage gave me for $25.Voice on data networks is obvious. SIP is a standard protocol. Anything that runs them is an implimentation of an obvious standard protocol. Verizon deserves all the bad-will it gets for sueing Vonage.
"Also, jail time cannot be awarded for breech of contract"Not only breach of contract, but any civil suit. Only criminal convictions can result in jail time.
I believe that Verizon contracted Actiontec to build this router's firmware specifically for their FIOS. Basically, it is Verizon calling the shots, not Actiontec.
I don't believe it works like that, but you can try. In the end, Verizon still owns the router (at least per MY FIOS contract). I'd not want to brick any of their equipment that I'd have to pay for.Secondly, I replaced my Actiontec FIOS router with a Linksys WRT54GS that has Tomato firmware. I didn't even have to spoof a MAC address, either. The Actiontec is behind the Linksys (since I still need the Actiontec for the FIOS TV solution), but the Linksys IS the better router.
thewindblowsDec 8, 2007
especially since they already are slightly losing on FiOS at the moment too.
z0mbie2099Dec 8, 2007
Hell yeah! And you bastards start suing companies like Vonage. Take that bitches.
blueorderDec 8, 2007
This doesn't happen for me. He must have loaded some Verizon specific software from their software package.
firefoxmanDec 8, 2007Submitter
This does not comply with the GPL. They have to provide a written offer telling people what to do to get the source, or provide the source with the router, as they are the distributor.Also, they have made additional changes when they adapted the router to their own purposes.
Closed AccountDec 9, 2007
Verizon is a piece of crap company. Before Vonage, Verizon would charge me $200 for worse service then Vonage gave me for $25.Voice on data networks is obvious. SIP is a standard protocol. Anything that runs them is an implimentation of an obvious standard protocol. Verizon deserves all the bad-will it gets for sueing Vonage.
init100Dec 9, 2007
"Also, jail time cannot be awarded for breech of contract"Not only breach of contract, but any civil suit. Only criminal convictions can result in jail time.
lolo2007Jan 20, 2008
Hope they have to pay ridiculous amounts of money.. it's only fair.. I mean they only stole something, pretended it was theirs and sold it to thousands of people.. how does ten years in jail sound.. oh wait it's only illegal if your an individual who download music/movies..<a class="user" href="http://game.paramegsoft.com/">http://game.paramegsoft.com/</a><a class="user" href="http://download.paramegsoft.com/">http://download.paramegsoft.com/</a>
unixfoolApr 24, 2008
I believe that Verizon contracted Actiontec to build this router's firmware specifically for their FIOS. Basically, it is Verizon calling the shots, not Actiontec.
unixfoolApr 24, 2008
I don't believe it works like that, but you can try. In the end, Verizon still owns the router (at least per MY FIOS contract). I'd not want to brick any of their equipment that I'd have to pay for.Secondly, I replaced my Actiontec FIOS router with a Linksys WRT54GS that has Tomato firmware. I didn't even have to spoof a MAC address, either. The Actiontec is behind the Linksys (since I still need the Actiontec for the FIOS TV solution), but the Linksys IS the better router.
vanbureneJul 23, 2008
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