I've worked with a giant pile of random embedded boards. Those boards often come with a CD of random Linux bits designated as a "board support package", and more often than not those random Linux bits represent a random snapshot of some subset of RHEL. It seems highly likely that at least some device vendors make the mistake of actually *using* those random Linux bits, and highly likely that at least one of them didn't bother satisfying their GPL obligations. Red Hat Network never comes into play.
Power management, mobile and firmware developer on Linux. Security developer at nvidia. Ex-biologist. Content here should not be interpreted as the opinion of my employer. Also on Mastodon and Bluesky.
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Date: 2012-01-31 12:15 pm (UTC)