ELAN Home Systems, a developer of multi-room A/V and come control systems, revealed today the early shipping of its new N800 touch controller. This remote on steroids is priced around $1,200.

The ELAN N800 offers wireless Internet access and lets one control ELAN and third party supported systems. A graphical interface allows you to control entertainment, theater and whole-house systems. It’s based in part on Nokia hardware and sports a four-inch touchscreen display.

Features of the N800 include real-time status display for lighting, temperature and security systems as well as “now playing” information from music sources, zoom, full-screen & panning functions, a full-screen finger keyboard, built-in stereo speakers and more. It is available now.

Proprietary software in the ELAN N800 is not compatible with other Nokia N800 or web tablet models purchased elsewhere.

ok, correct me if i'm wrong, but a company is taking a 200 dollar piece of hardware, and hiking the price 1000 bucks because they added an application that is in violation of the GPL? wow... people have sunk to a new low.

gpl@busybox.net

Subject: ELAN N800 Handheld Touch Panel - GPL infringement

Dear SFLC,

Please be advised that the source code for the following product is not available:


December 19th, 2007

ELAN Home Systems, a developer of multi-room A/V and come control systems, revealed today the early shipping of its new N800 touch controller. This remote on steroids is priced around $1,200.

The ELAN N800 offers wireless Internet access and lets one control ELAN and third party supported systems. A graphical interface allows you to control entertainment, theater and whole-house systems. It\u2019s based in part on Nokia hardware and sports a four-inch touchscreen display.

Features of the N800 include real-time status display for lighting, temperature and security systems as well as \u201cnow playing\u201d information from music sources, zoom, full-screen & panning functions, a full-screen finger keyboard, built-in stereo speakers and more. It is available now.

The url for the product is:
http://www.elanhomesystems.com/produ...anels/n800.asp

We will attempt to contact the company, but would also appreciate if you investigated this a bit further.

Best Regards

Originally Posted by gnexus

OTOH, the N800 uses Linux. Unless somehow Nokia set them up using Symbian, their code is built upon GPL code. Therefore someone (the FSF), needs to force the GPL down their throat and get them to toss up their cookies and code

This paragraph is wrong in many ways. You can make closed system like this without violaing anything and still use linux as a kernel. You can even mix free and closed stuff in userspace like Nokia is doing in firmware of their tablets.

Do some basic research before grabbing torches and pitchforks :-)

Originally Posted by fanoush

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Do some basic research before grabbing torches and pitchforks :-)

Originally Posted by gnexus

Geez... Fanoush, chill out a bit! It seems everybody on this site takes things a bit too seriously. My second post was originally made as a joke, actually.

Originally Posted by gnexus

I think it is YOU who needs to do the research. I'm not just a programmer. I also have a bit of legal experience. It's not just the kernel we are talking about here. It's busybox, Gnome and all the other libraries involved in the OS and the application. This product not simplay an N800 with some extra GUI stuff (well, actually. . .). It is being marketed and sold as a new distinct product. Therefore they, and not Nokia, have to publish all the code they use that uses or links to any GPL code, or at least provide a link for it or a way to get it. They are not doing that. So they are breaking the GPL and are liable for copyright (left?) infringement unless they correct the situation.

Originally Posted by gemniii42

How about some tar also?