Their efforts to keep MSN customers away from AIM customers were almost pathologically fierce. The Gateway Touch Pad utilizes Transmeta's Midori Linux operating system. The GNU GPL was written as part of the Free Software Movement . The ideas that inspired the GNU GPL are from free software, not open source. Developers who release their software under the GNU GPL intend to guarantee all users the right to share and change that software.
Users can also use pieces of the software in new programs.
Notice of all copyright holders, what is and isn't covered under the license, and a copy of the GNU GPL must be included in the software. The GNU GPL forbids anyone to deny users the rights covered under the license. And while nobody was surprised that AOL would release an overpriced piece of dumbed-down equipment, offering a new product with software that is covered under the GNU GPL raised a few eyebrows. Of course not. Because it's AOL, that's why Widely hailed as some of the worst programmers in the industry and routinely outwitted by schoolchildren, AOL's engineers are certainly aware of the GNU GPL and its restrictions.