08.11.2008 06:06 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Diebold's e-voting machines violate GPL, good taste

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Diebold just can't seem to keep its nose clean these days. The nation's largest manufacturer of ATM machines admitted not too long ago what everybody already knew: that their e-voting machines were totally bunk. Apparently in the course of that investigation it emerged that the company also thought it would be a laugh to load the open source Ghostscript Postscript interpreter software into those faulty machines without releasing its changes or paying the proprietary usage license fee -- leading Aritex, its developer, to file a lawsuit. It doesn't really instill confidence any f

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